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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]
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]
Death Penalty Worldwide: Archived 2013-11-13 at the Wayback Machine Academic research database on the laws, practice, and statistics of capital punishment for every death penalty country in the world. Smile of death: China History Punishment
The "premise and reasoning underlying the sunna rule of death penalty for apostasy were valid in the historical context" where 'disbelief is equated with high treason' because citizenship was 'based on belief in Islam', but doesn't apply today (Abdullahi An-Na'im, et al.); [205] [206] the prescription of death penalty for apostasy found in ...
Apostasy (riddah, ردة or irtidad, ارتداد), leaving Islam for another religion or for atheism, [38] [39] is regarded as one of hudud crimes liable to capital punishment in traditional Maliki, Hanbali and Shia jurisprudence, but not in Hanafi and Shafi'i fiqh as the hudud are a kaffarah for the hudud offences, though these schools all ...
English: A survey based on face-to-face interviews conducted in 80 languages by the Pew Research Center between 2008 and 2012 among thousands of Muslims in many countries, found varied views on the death penalty for those who leave Islam to become an atheist or to convert to another religion. In this survey, Muslims who favoured making sharia ...
In Turkey, capital punishment was fully abolished in 2004 for all crimes. [4]In 2018, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his right-wing government coalition partners agreed to a proposal that could see the death penalty restored in Turkey against anyone sentenced for terrorism.
The Mālikī jurist al-Qayrawānī (d. 996 AD) distinguished between two kinds of insult: an outright attack against Islam, made by ill intent and therefore punishable by death according to the Islamic death penalty, and a simple declaration of one's own religion. In this last case, the Christian could not be held accountable for this offense.