They only sentenced the woman, the man they had no issueswith him doing this. She has a reprieve. The story from cp24.com
Saved From Death
A single mother who’d been sentence to death by stoning has another chance at life.
The woman, who’d been sentenced for adultery, was acquitted on Thursday by an Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria.
Judges threw out the conviction and said she hadn’t had “ample opportunity to defend herself.â€
And the panel of five judges also said that 32-year-old Amina Lawall hadn’t been caught in the act of adultery, and didn’t have enough time to properly grasp the charges. Procedural mistakes were also cited by the panel.
The case had triggered a barrage of outcries from international rights groups. And if the stoning had happened, Lawall would have been the first woman to die in such a way since 12 northern states started upholding tough Islamic law, or Shariah, in 1999.
“We think the death penalty for adultery is contrary to the Nigerian constitution,†said Francois Cantier, a lawyer with French group Avocats Sans Frontieres, or Lawyers Without Borders.
The woman was first convicted in March 2002, after she gave birth to a daughter, two years after divorcing her husband.
Judges said she wouldn’t be killed until she was done breast-feeding her child in January 2004.
September 25, 2003
Saved From Death
A single mother who’d been sentence to death by stoning has another chance at life.
The woman, who’d been sentenced for adultery, was acquitted on Thursday by an Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria.
Judges threw out the conviction and said she hadn’t had “ample opportunity to defend herself.â€
And the panel of five judges also said that 32-year-old Amina Lawall hadn’t been caught in the act of adultery, and didn’t have enough time to properly grasp the charges. Procedural mistakes were also cited by the panel.
The case had triggered a barrage of outcries from international rights groups. And if the stoning had happened, Lawall would have been the first woman to die in such a way since 12 northern states started upholding tough Islamic law, or Shariah, in 1999.
“We think the death penalty for adultery is contrary to the Nigerian constitution,†said Francois Cantier, a lawyer with French group Avocats Sans Frontieres, or Lawyers Without Borders.
The woman was first convicted in March 2002, after she gave birth to a daughter, two years after divorcing her husband.
Judges said she wouldn’t be killed until she was done breast-feeding her child in January 2004.
September 25, 2003
). That means that a woman can have sex and a legitimate child if she's not married to another man. That would be frowned upon but is "legal" and the child is not a :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor:. If the woman is married to one man and has sex with another then it's adultrey. Any child born from that relationship is declared a :censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor::censor: (which has horrible implications is Israel, the worst being that this child and his offspring cannot marry any Jewish person in Israel for 10 generations!). If the husband has proof that the wife committed adultrey, he can sue for a divorce and get everything - she loses all her rights. The same is not true the other way around. If the husband committs adultrey, the wife cannot apply for a divorce on that ground and he doesn't lose anything on account of that.
