Amina Lawal

Amina Lawal Kurami is a Nigerian woman previously sentenced to death by stoning for adultery and for conceiving a child out of wedlock. Lawal was sentenced by an Islamic Sharia court in Funtua, in the northern state of Katsina, in Nigeria, on 22 March 2002. The person she identified as the father of the child, Yahayya Muhammad Kurami, was acquitted of the accusation of zinā. Although Kurami was excused because he took an oath by the Qur’an, this was not an option for Lawal due to the presence of her child, which is considered proof in the Mālikī school.