Associated Press
ABUJA, Nigeria — An Islamic court in Nigeria has sentenced a man to death by stoning, the first such sentence since Islamic law was introduced last year.
Attahiru Umaru, 35, was convicted Wednesday of sodomizing a 7-year-old boy, court officials in the northeastern city of Birnin-Kebbi said Friday.
The Islamic court in Kebbi state ordered the man stoned to death in public. He has been given 30 days to appeal the ruling.
Since several northern states began imposing Islamic law, or Sharia, last year, Islamic courts have ordered the hands of thieves amputated and several women and girls have been publicly flogged for alleged sexual indiscretions. But this was the first order of execution by stoning.
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