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Amina Lawal, 31, left, who was sentenced to death by the Upper Sharia Court in Funtua, Nigeria is taken out of the court by defense counsel Hauwa Ibrahimat on Aug. 19, 2002. An Islamic court upheld a sentence of death by stoning on a woman for bearing a child out of wedlock. Nigeria offered security guarantees to jittery Miss World organizers Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2002 after Islamic fundamentalists threatened protests of the pageant - and pageant contestants threatened a boycott over the sentencing of a Nigerian Muslim woman to death by stoning. (AP Photo)