Nigerian Court Overturns Death Sentence

Friday December 10, 2004 10:16 AM

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4664796,00.html

KANO, Nigeria (AP) - An Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria threw out a sentence ordering a 25-year-old mother be stoned to death for adultery.

Judge Suleiman Yusuf of the Upper Shariah Court in the rural town of Ningi said Daso Adamu's conviction in September was based on flawed evidence.

Adamu, whose conviction was based on her giving birth, had been married and divorced twice. She had allegedly confessed to committing adultery but later retracted the confession.

None of a dozen stoning-death sentences passed since 12 states in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria adopted strict Shariah law four years ago have been carried out.

I heard thousands of people starve to death in this paradise every year.

"Let Freedom Reign", The CHIMP.