Woman’s Execution by Stoning Is Postponed
NIGERIA
An Islamic high court in Nigeria postponed the execution of a woman convicted of having sex out of wedlock until she weans the baby born of the liaison.
Amina Lawal, 30, was sentenced to death by stoning in March after giving birth to a baby girl more than nine months after divorcing.
Her lawyer asked the court in northern Katsina state to overturn the execution order. Failing that, he said, the court should postpone the execution until the girl is old enough to be weaned. The judge agreed that Lawal would not be executed until 2004, if at all.
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