Posted on 06/20/2007 1:25:37 PM PDT by Bokababe
Tehran, 20 June (AKI) - Makrameh Ebrahimi on Thursday will be stoned to death in a square in front of the cemetery of Takestan, in Ghazvin province some 100 km from Tehran, for having had a child out of wedlock 11 years ago, women's rights groups in Iran said. The Islamic Republic denies issuing stoning death sentences and carrying them out. Thursday's is the first death sentence by stoning to be publicly announced and rights groups say the population has been invited to participate and throw stones.
It is reportedly unclear how many stoning sentences have been issued and carried out in Iran since reports of a moratorium by the judiciary emerged in 2002.
The Iranian criminal code states that when stoning is carried out for offences such as adultery the stones should not be too large because "the punishment of stoning is designed to cause the victim great pain before death".
In Iran, the convicted person to be killed is wrapped in a sheet and partly buried. Male convicts are buried from the waist down, while women are buried deeper to prevent the breasts from becoming exposed.
Iran is second in a global ranking of countries with the highest number of executions per year after China.
(Rah/Aki)
Jun-20-07 16:15
make the people do it...
May it be fast. I am at a loss for words. So uncivilized.
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
Barbarians.
Well we wouldn’t want the breats to be exposed otherwise they’d have to stone her to death a second time for that offense.
Yeah, stoning’s the prescription the Koran ordered in this case. Amnesty International has released a statement on this that can’t possibly be weaker.
Now, now let’s not discriminate against them because of their different culture. /sarcasm
Who will raise her 11 year old?
There is no truth to the rumor that once she is totally stoned, she will work for the Giuliani campaign.
"Rights groups"? Groups that advocate for rights to stone people?
Article 104 of the Law of Hodoud provides that the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause severe injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim, in a process leading to his or her slow death.
These people deperately need Jesus.
Sometimes it seems even chopping her head off would be better. I just can’t imagine this type of death sentence. I just wish we would bomb the entire Middle East and their cult culture out of existence.
“There’s no women is this crowd wearing false beards for the stoning is there?”
Wrong. They need to be exterminated.
“... while women are buried deeper to prevent the breasts from becoming exposed”
So it’s all head shots? In which century are these fools living?
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