Sani Yakubu Rodi (b.
1975 or 1981, according to conflicting reports) was the first prisoner to be executed under state-level Sharia law in Nigeria.
He was hanged in a prison in Katsina State on January 3, 2002, for the 2001 fatal stabbing of a woman and her two children; however, he did not have legal representation at his trial (opting for self-defense), and had pleaded not guilty at his initial hearing, but had changed to a guilty plea at a later hearing, after which he was sentenced to death by hanging.
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