Miss World organizers ask for stop to stoning

Friday, September 13, 2002

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Organizers of Miss World asked Nigeria's government Thursday for assurances a single mother's sentence of death by stoning for having sex outside of marriage will not be carried out.

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