BANFIELD: Overseas today, a woman is in prison, and she's been sentenced to death. Her crime, according to the judge, is she refused to give up her Christianity. This happened in Sudan. This woman on the right is married to a Christian man. She considers herself a Christian. She was raised one, after all. But the court says, your dad, who took off on your family when you were 6, well, he's a Muslim, and Sudan's law says Sharia law means you can't marry outside your faith. So they told her to renounce her Christianity. And in the court, she defiantly said no. Her husband told us that he feels helpless to save her. Michael Holmes of CNN International is here with me, live, and also with me is Adotei Akwei from Amnesty International. Where do I even begin? Michael, perhaps you can tell our audience who hears a set of facts like that and thinks that can't be real. That truly can't be real. How real is this? What are the chances this death penalty is going to be carried out?</s>MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there's every chance. Not initially though, Ashleigh, and that's because this poor woman, Meriam Ibrahim, is actually pregnant. She's eight months pregnant, as you pointed out. She's in prison, though, while she goes through the pregnancy. The court has said that she can have the baby and then breast feed for two years after that. And then the death penalty will be carried out. Now you make a couple of points here. She was born to a Muslim father. Now under interpretation of Sharia law in Sudan that means she is Muslim.
Sudanese Woman Faces Death for Her Religion