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BAUCHI, Nigeria (AP) - An Islamic court sentenced Mohammed Sagri to death by stoning months ago, but he doesn't expect to die any time soon.
"I'm afraid," said Sagri, a 22-year-old mason who pleaded guilty to a sodomy charge in 2005. Then, staring at the floor of a jailhouse office, he added: "But the sentence is unlikely to be carried out."
In Nigeria's Muslim north, sentences of amputation and death by stoning are routinely imposed under Shariah, or Islamic law. But no stonings have ever been carried out, and no amputations since 2001.
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