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  2. Capital punishment in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation was the normal method of executing the death penalty under classical Islamic law. [28] It was also, together with hanging, one of the ordinary methods of execution in the Ottoman Empire. [29] Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which uses decapitation within its Islamic legal system. [30]

  3. Islam and violence - Wikipedia

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    [139] [175] Some modern scholars also argue that the death penalty is an inappropriate punishment, [176] [177] [178] inconsistent with the Quranic injunctions such as Quran 88:21–22 [179] or "no compulsion in religion"; [180] and/or that it is not a general rule but enacted at a time when the early Muslim community faced enemies who ...

  4. Islam and blasphemy - Wikipedia

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    [30] [31] A non-Muslim who commits blasphemy against Islam must be punished; however, the blasphemer can escape punishment by converting and becoming a devout Muslim. [32] Hanbali – view blasphemy as an offense distinct from, and more severe than apostasy. Death is mandatory in cases of blasphemy, for both Muslim men and women. [33] [34]

  5. Qisas - Wikipedia

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    The just law that Islam enforced was that the killer is the one who has to be killed in Qisas. If a woman is the killer why should an innocent man be killed in retaliation? Similarly, if the killer is a slave, there is no sense in retaliating against an innocent free man. This is an injustice which can never be tolerated in Islam.' [13]

  6. No quarter - Wikipedia

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    No quarter, during military conflict or piracy, implies that combatants would not be taken prisoner, but executed. Since the Hague Convention of 1899 , it is considered a war crime ; it is also prohibited in customary international law and by the Rome Statute .

  7. Pakistani court sentences man to death and teenager to life ...

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    A Pakistani court sentenced a 22-year-old student to death and gave a teenager a life sentence in two separate cases after finding them guilty of insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad, a defense ...

  8. Decapitation in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation was the normal method of executing the death penalty under classical Islamic law. [10] [11] It was also, together with hanging, one of the ordinary methods of execution in the Ottoman Empire. [12] Currently, Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world which uses decapitation within its Islamic legal system. [13]

  9. Capital punishment for non-violent offenses - Wikipedia

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    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 ...