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Although not common, it remains in use in several Islamic countries both unofficially and officially.
Modern practiceStoning is a legal sentence for certain activities deemed criminal in some (but not all) of the Islamic countries governed by Sharia law [1], including the following:
IranCapital punishment in Iran is legal, and can be executed in a number of ways, one of which has included stoning in the past. The Iranian judiciary has officially placed a moratorium on stoning, although the punishment remains on the books.[1] In April 2002[7], the Iranian newspaper Entekhab reported that a woman called Ferdows B had been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment, to be followed by death by stoning. Another woman who received a similar sentence was stoned to death in May 2001, after eight years in Tehran's Evin Prison. She had been convicted of adultery and corruption on earth.
In June 2006, according to Iran Focus, a report about the stoning to death in May 2005 in Mashad of Mahboubeh Mohammadi, a teacher, and her sister's husband, both convicted of murdering Mahboubeh's husband, circulated on Persian-language websites.[9]. The stoning was allegedly carried out in the middle of the night in a cemetery. In early July 2006, a report by ADN Kronos International[10] about the sentencing of Malak Ghorbany in Urmia to stoning for adultery started circulating widely in the internet[11] along with a petition against the sentence[12]. According to Amnesty International, Article 104 of the Iranian penal code states, with reference to the penalty for adultery: ...the stones should not be too large so that the person dies on being hit by one or two of them; they should not be so small either that they could not be defined as stones. Amnesty argues that this is clear evidence that "the punishment of stoning is designed to cause the victim grievous pain before death".[7] In Iran, the convicted person to be killed is wrapped in a sheet and partially buried; male convicts are buried from the waist down, female convicts are buried to prevent the breasts from becoming exposed. NepalIn Nepal, Maoist guerillas who control certain areas of the country have used execution by stoning to enforce some of their mandates. (Article) While the guerillas are not recognized internationally as a legitimate government, this is a rare and noteworthy example of contemporary stoning used by a non-Islamic group. Groups against the practice of stoningStoning has been condemned by many groups, both secular and religious, for a variety of reasons. Some groups, such Amnesty International [13] and Human Rights Watch, oppose all capital punishment, including stoning. Other groups, such as NCRI (the National Council of Resistance in Iran)[14], and RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), oppose stoning per se as an especially cruel and sexist practice. Specific sentences of stoning, such as the Amina Lawal case, have often generated international protest. Groups like Human Rights Watch [15], while in sympathy with these protests, have raised a concern that the Western focus on stoning as an especially exotic or barbaric act distracts from what they view as the larger problems of capital punishment. The argue that the "more fundamental human rights issue in Nigeria is the dysfunctional justice system." Religious textIn JudaismIn the Old Testament of the Bible, stoning is specifically prescribed as the method of execution for crimes such as murder, blasphemy and apostasy, and in some cases adultery. However, the Talmud seriously limits the use of the death penalty to those criminals who were warned not to commit the crime in the presence of two witnesses, and persisted in committing the crime also in front of two witnesses[citation needed]. In the time these laws were used - approximately 400 years - there were only eight such executions[citation needed]. In Judaism there is no executioner who executes the criminal because by that he would himself be guilty of murder. In fact, the witnesses are required to throw the first stones. In this way stoning was used as a society punishment to the criminal and secondly there was no way of knowing which stone killed the criminal[citation needed]. Extract from Deuteronomy:
In IslamThe traditional Muslim view is that the punishment for adultery (Arabic: Zina (Arabic)) is stoning. In recent times, there is a renewed debate among Muslims regarding the interpretation of the hadith and verses regarding this issues. Well known examples
Stoning in literature
Stoning in film and television
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