An Islamic court in northern Nigeria’s Bauchi state has sentenced three men to death by stoning for raping two boys, an official said Friday. Bauchi is among a dozen states in predominantly Muslim northern Nigeria where Sharia law is in operation alongside common criminal justice. The court in the town of Ningi handed down the sentences on the trio on Wednesday, Sharia Hisbah (police) official Adamu Dankafi told AFP. They were accused of raping two boys after drugging them, he said. Raping minors is punishable by death under Nigeria’s Sharia law, although like most other death sentences it has…