Well, yes they have become more modern in how they “stone” women to death. While I was stationed in Jordan (1975-1977) one of my duties was to take care of the aircrews for VIP flights. Usually this was just to get them to their hotel one evening and then back to their aircraft the next morning. Once we had an aircrew for about three days so I checked out one of the embassy’s Grand Wagoneers and took them sightseeing—lots of Roman and Crusader ruins there. They told lots of war stories and one of them was about being in Riyadh one Friday (the moslem holy day) morning eating breakfast at their hotel when there arose a huge uproar down the street. The ran out of the hotel to see what was happening and found that the noise came from a crowd assembled at a traffic circle. They pushed through the crowd to see what was happening and saw a woman in a burka tied to a stake. They couldn’t understand what was being said, but someone suddenly gave a signal and people threw rocks at the woman, although very few of the rocks hit her. The woman knew she was a goner and crumpled up in a ball on the ground. At that point modern technology took over as a Mercedes dump truck backed out of the crowd and dumped a load of rock on her.
In the late 1980’s my sister and her husband lived in Al Jubail which is near Kuwait. The town had a place known to the Westerners as “chop square”. You can guess the punishment meted out there.