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Stoning, or lapidation, is a method of capital punishment where a group throws stones at a person until the subject dies from blunt trauma. It has been attested as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times. Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel [citation needed]. Its use is ...
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. [2] The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking; armed robbery; kidnapping; terrorism; burglary; incest; fornication; adultery; sodomy; sexual misconduct; prostitution; [3] [4] plotting to overthrow the Islamic government; political dissidence; sabotage; arson; rebellion ...
Stoning. Stoning is the form of execution for only one crime in Iran - adultery. [81] From 1980 to 2009 150 people were reportedly stoned to death in Iran, [citation needed] but in 2002, authorities placed a moratorium on this form of execution. [81] As of 2018, women were still being sentenced to stoning in Iran. [82]
Of these countries only Iran, which officially placed a moratorium on stoning in 2002 but still gives leeway to individual judges, has actually carried it out. [19] Saudi Arabia sentenced four people by stoning between the 1980 and 1992. [20]
Indonesia has an informal moratorium and Malaysia a formal one, both in place since 2018. In April 2023, legislation abolishing the mandatory death penalty was passed in Malaysia. [39] The countries in Asia that most recently abolished the death penalty are Kazakhstan (2021), Mongolia (2017), and Uzbekistan (2008).
By firing squad (as in parts of the United States, Bahrain, Cuba, Nigeria, North Korea, Indonesia, Oman, Somalia, Somaliland, Tajikistan, Qatar, Uganda, and the United Arab Emirates. Lethal injection First used in the United States in 1982, lethal injection has since been adopted by China, Guatemala , Maldives , Nigeria, Taiwan, Thailand, and ...
Capital punishment for offenses is allowed by law in some countries. Such offenses include adultery, apostasy, blasphemy, corruption, drug trafficking, espionage, fraud, homosexuality and sodomy not involving force, perjury causing execution of an innocent person (which, however, may well be considered and even prosecutable as murder), prostitution, sorcery and witchcraft, theft, treason and ...
In some provincial towns, traditional forms of execution such as stoning were revived for moral offenses. [12] At stonings, spectators are encouraged to participate by throwing stones at the condemned. In 1990, Amnesty International "recorded the first executions carried out by beheading in modern times in Iran." [9]