Section 410: State at which President is to consider report

(1) The President shall, after considering the report made under section 409 of this Act, if any, and after obtaining the advice of the Council of State, decide whether or not to recommend that the sentence should be commuted to imprisonment for life, or that the sentence should be commuted to any specific period, or that the convict should be otherwise pardoned or reprieved.
(2) Where, for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the Council of State is required to advise the President in relation to any person sentenced to death, the Attorney-General of the Federation shall cause a record of the case to be prepared and submitted to the Council of State, and the Council of State shall, in giving its advice, have regard to the matters set out in that record.