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[1] [not specific enough to verify] [2] [not specific enough to verify] Crimes according to the sharīʿa law which could result in capital punishment include, murder, rape, adultery, homosexuality [citation needed], etc. [3] [4] Death penalty is in use in many Muslim-majority countries, where it is utilised as sharīʿa-prescribed punishment ...
Tazir punishment is for actions which are considered sinful in Islam, undermine the Muslim community, or threaten public order during Islamic rule, but those that are not punishable as hadd or qisas crimes. [20] The legal restrictions on the exercise of that power are not specified in the Quran or the Hadiths, and vary. [3]
[140] [141] [142] Various fiqhs (schools of jurisprudence) of Islam have different punishment for blasphemy, depending on whether blasphemer is Muslim or non-Muslim, man or woman. [138] The punishment can be fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading. [143] [144] Muslim clerics may call for the punishment of an alleged ...
Islamic law divides crimes into three different categories depending on the offense – Hudud (crimes "against God", [1] whose punishment is fixed in the Quran and the Hadiths), Qisas (crimes against an individual or family whose punishment is equal retaliation in the Quran and the Hadiths), and Tazir (crimes whose punishment is not specified ...
Many Islamic nations have laws that have their base in Sharia law, which permits capital punishments for various acts. [3] However, not all Islamic nations have the death penalty as a legal punishment. Many early Christians were strongly opposed to the death penalty, and magistrates who enforced it could be excommunicated. Attitudes gradually ...
Although stoning for zina is not mentioned in the Quran, all schools of traditional jurisprudence agreed on the basis of hadith that it is to be punished by stoning if the offender is muhsan (adult, free, Muslim, and married or previously married). Lashing is the penalty for offenders who are not muhsan, i.e. they do not meet all of the above ...
As well as corporal punishment, some Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran use other kinds of physical penalties such as amputation or mutilation. [54] [55] [56] However, the term "corporal punishment" has since the 19th century usually meant caning, flagellation or bastinado rather than those other types of physical penalty.
The modern church's views regarding torture have changed drastically, largely reverting to the earlier stance. In 1953, in an address to the 6th International Congress of Penal Law, Pope Pius XII approvingly reiterated the position of Pope Nicholas the Great over a thousand years before him, when his predecessor had unilaterally opposed the use ...