Stoning

After the relevant decision of the authorized legal body: the king or the court (in the Old Testament society, the prophets pronounced the sentence before the era of judges), a crowd of direct relatives gathered, less often ordinary citizens who killed the perpetrator by throwing heavy stones at him.

They were sentenced to stoning only for those 18 types of crimes for which the Bible directly prescribes a similar execution ^[1] . However, in the Talmud, stoning was replaced by casting a condemned person on stones ^[1] . According to the Talmud, the condemned should be thrown from such a height that death occurred instantly, but his body was not disfigured.

The stoning took place as follows: the condemned man was given an extract of narcotic herbs as an anesthetic, after which he was thrown off a cliff, and if he did not die from it, one large stone was thrown on top of him.

Stoned by st. Stephen (see Acts 7: 54–60 ).

Article 119 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran (Hodoud and Kisas) states: “When punished by stoning to death with stones, the stones shall not be too large so that the convicted person does not die from one or two blows; they also should not be so small that they could not be called stones. "

Stoning can be used according to Sharia for adultery , if committed or committed adultery is married. But at the same time, conditions are stipulated that make the use of the death penalty almost impossible in practice. Adultery directly (in the figurative expression of lawyers, you need to see that “the key is in the lock”) should be observed by four (minimum) people who have an impeccable reputation and enjoy a well-deserved authority (roughly speaking, the testimonies of those who are often accused of lying, the testimonies of unreliable people not accepted). If there are discrepancies in the testimonies of witnesses, they will all be subjected to corporal punishment. Any significant doubt cancels the punishment ^[2] . As a rule, those sentenced to death are buried knees in the ground and put on a veil. In Iranian criminal law there is a requirement that the stones should not be more than a fist, so that the victim does not die "too quickly"; also stones should not be too small ^[3] . Death usually occurs from brain damage, as stones of such a size are selected that they cannot break bones. Such an execution is very painful, since a person is able to endure strong blows without losing consciousness.

The symbolic stoning of Shaitan is one of the stages of the Hajj .

Stoning is currently used in some Muslim countries. On January 1, 1989, stoning was preserved in the laws of six countries.

In a number of media ^{[ what? ] A} teenage girl was reportedly executed in Somalia on October 27, 2008, by a Islamist court decision after three men allegedly raped her on the way from Kismayu ’s hometown to her relatives in Mogadishu . According to Amnesty International , the convict was only thirteen years old. At the same time, the BBC channel noted that the journalists present during the execution of the sentence estimated her age at 23, and condemning a 13-year-old girl for adultery would be contrary to Islamic law ^[4] .

On January 16, 2015, it was reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant organization stoned a fighter in the Iraqi city ​​of Mosul they had seized by a woman accused of adultery ^[5] .

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