16 Facts About Stoning

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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.

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Stoning appears to have been the standard method of capital punishment in ancient Israel.

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3.

Stoning is condemned by human rights organizations and stoning sentences have sparked international controversies.

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4.

Stoning is the method of execution mentioned most frequently in the Torah.

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5.

Stoning saw errors of commission as much more threatening to the integrity of law than errors of omission.

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6.

Stoning is not mentioned as a form of capital punishment in the canonical text of the Quran.

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7.

Stoning went on reciting till he reached a portion on which he put his hand.

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8.

Stoning has been extensively discussed in the texts of early, medieval and modern era Islamic jurisprudence .

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9.

Stoning stated that contested pregnancy is sufficient proof of adultery and any Muslim woman who is pregnant by a man who she is not married to, at the time of getting pregnant, must be stoned to death.

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10.

Stoning is attested in the Near East since ancient times as a form of capital punishment for grave sins.

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11.

Stoning was "presumably" the standard form of capital punishment in ancient Israel.

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Stoning'storians disagree as to whether Roman authorities allowed Jewish communities to apply capital punishment to those who broke religious laws, or whether these episodes represented a form of lynching.

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13.

Stoning is illegal in Afghanistan, but is sometimes carried out by tribal leaders and Taliban insurgents extrajudicially in certain parts of the country.

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14.

Stoning occurred in lawless areas, where vigilantes committed the act for political purposes.

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15.

Stoning is a legal form of judicial punishment in UAE for adultery and homosexuality.

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Stoning has been condemned as a violation of women's rights and a form of discrimination against women.

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