Amnesty International Calls For Iran to Halt Stonings
by KJ Mullins.
In Iran the price for the crime of adultery is being stoned to death as in olden days. A woman caught in the act of adultery is buried up to her breasts and then stoned until she dies of her injuries.
is calling for the nation of Iran to halt this cruel form of capital punishment. The agency is against any form of capital punishment but calls this particular form "grotesque and horrific".
"Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian government to abolish immediately and totally execution by stoning and to impose a moratorium on the death penalty," the rights group said in a 30-page report on the practice.
"Iranian law prescribes that the stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately ... It is a particularly grotesque and horrific practice."
Iran enforces more capital punishment than most countries. In 2006 117 people were executed alone. Most of those were killed by hanging. The first seven months of 2007 were just as deadly with 124 people put to death.
Amnesty is also asking for the Islamic nation to decriminalize adultery. Most other countries do not consider the act illegal regardless of how it is viewed morally.
Amnesty International Calls For Iran to Halt Stonings
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