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Several adultery executions by stoning committed by IS were reported in the autumn of 2014. [72] [73] [74] The Islamic State's magazine, Dabiq, documented the stoning of a woman in Raqqa as a punishment for adultery. [citation needed] In October 2014, IS released a video appearing to show a Syrian man stone his daughter to death for alleged ...
The punishment of stoning/Rajm or capital punishment for adultery is unique in Islamic law in that it conflicts with the Qur'anic prescription for premarital and extramarital sex [9] [1] found in Surah An-Nur, 2: "The woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication — flog each of them with a hundred stripes."
In jurisdictions where adultery is illegal, punishments vary from fines (for example in the US state of Rhode Island [147]) to caning in parts of Asia. [148] [149] In 15 countries [9] the punishment includes stoning, although in recent times it has been legally enforced only in Iran and Somalia. [10]
Hudud crimes which can result in the death penalty include apostasy, adultery, and sodomy although requirement of evidence is high and is usually based on confession. [39] Punishment for adultery is stoning. No stoning has taken place in Saudi Arabia in the last decades. [40] [41] Qisas: Eye-for-an-eye retaliatory punishments. [38]
Adulterers risk death by stoning too, while thieves face amputation of a right hand on their first offense and a left foot on their second. RELATED: Sharia law punishment for gambling
Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime, some subject to severe punishment, especially in the case of extramarital sex involving a married woman and a man other than her husband, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, or torture. [1]
Since 2020, stoning is no longer a legal method for carrying out executions following an amendment to the Federal Penal Code. [6] Before 2020, stoning was the default method of execution for adultery, [7] and several people were sentenced to death by stoning. [8] [9] [10] [11]
The institution of capital punishment in Jewish law is defined in the Law of Moses (Torah) in multiple places. The Mosaic Law provides for the death penalty to be inflicted upon those persons convicted of the following offenses: adultery (for a married woman and her lover) [13] [14] bestiality [15] blasphemy [16] child sacrifice [17]