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Iran: woman sentenced to stoning, man to execution
Iran Focus ^ | 2/04/05 | Iran Focus

Posted on 02/04/2005 3:55:38 PM PST by freedom44

Tehran, Feb. 04 – A Tehran court has sentenced a couple to death by stoning and hanging, according to the state-run daily Etemad.

Iran's Supreme Court has reportedly upheld the verdicts and has confirmed that the woman only identified by her first name Massoumeh will be stoned to death and her husband identified by his first name Ismaeil will be hanged to death.

The couple were accused of murder. Another unnamed individual also charged with murder separately was handed down an execution sentence in Pakdasht (west of Tehran).

Stoning to death is a barbaric punishment used by the Iranian regime, where the victim is buried up to the waist in the ground (women are buried up to the shoulders) and stones are thrown to their heads, with the law stating that the stones must not be big enough to kill the person instantly and not be too small so that the victim feels the maximum amount of pain.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deathsentence; hanging; iran; stoning
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1 posted on 02/04/2005 3:55:39 PM PST by freedom44
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To: freedom44

I can think of some murderers in the US I wouldn't mind seeing this punishment used on.


2 posted on 02/04/2005 3:57:11 PM PST by free_european
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To: freedom44

Not as funny as the stoning scene in the Life of Brian.


3 posted on 02/04/2005 3:58:05 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: freedom44

So her punishment is slower and worse than his? She is more guilty than him?


4 posted on 02/04/2005 3:58:33 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: freedom44

Where's the ACLU?


5 posted on 02/04/2005 4:01:13 PM PST by PeterFinn (Why is it that people who know the least know it the loudest?)
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To: freedom44
This is tame compared to what the ACLU says they do in Texas.
6 posted on 02/04/2005 4:03:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: anniegetyourgun
her punishment is slower and worse than his

There is a good chance that he will be drugged and she will not.

7 posted on 02/04/2005 4:03:49 PM PST by MosesKnows
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To: anniegetyourgun

Good point there. The woman-hating Islamic fanatics have to stick their ideology into everything.

Some Freepers might be praising the Iranians for their "justice" system, but I think there should be a middle ground between the Iranian "torture 'em to death without evidence" and the Massachusetts "no death penalty and a technicality for every murderer."


8 posted on 02/04/2005 4:06:43 PM PST by JillValentine
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To: MosesKnows

They're sick people over there.....with a very sick religion....resulting in sick practices....


9 posted on 02/04/2005 4:06:49 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: PeterFinn

Or Amnesty International....and all the lefty human-rights organizations?


10 posted on 02/04/2005 4:07:37 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: freedom44

This couple is accused of murder. The only problem with this though is how Iran defines murder. Did they actually kill someone or rip a page in the Quaran?


11 posted on 02/04/2005 4:08:13 PM PST by Imaverygooddriver (I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
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To: free_european

The perverted that killed 5 year old Samantha Runnion would be one that comes to my mind.


12 posted on 02/04/2005 4:12:48 PM PST by beaversmom (The greatness of a man is measured by the fatness of his wife)
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To: freedom44

I've heard of "rock, paper scissors" but where does "rope" fit in?


13 posted on 02/04/2005 4:14:02 PM PST by taxesareforever
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To: anniegetyourgun
They're sick people over there

The idea is to keep it over there.

14 posted on 02/04/2005 4:22:10 PM PST by MosesKnows
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To: freedom44

Before they ban this practice, please, please, let them apply it to Saddam. Why is this b*st*rd still consuming air anyway? It's not like he might be innocent ya' know.

I postulate that if they stoned Saddam today, terrorist attacks by his loyalists would decline tomorrow. Think, if Hitler was alive and in prison after the fall of Berlin, how would his loyalists have behaved?


15 posted on 02/04/2005 4:24:04 PM PST by CATravelAgent (former stoner)
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To: freedom44
woman sentenced to stoning

Are you sure she doesn't post at DU?
16 posted on 02/04/2005 4:26:35 PM PST by RetroWarrior ("We count it death to falter, not to die")
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To: freedom44

There seems to be a lot of wisecracking going on here over an atrocity which has no place at all in a civilized world. I'll grant you Iran hardly qualifies as civilized but this sort of thing is beyond horrible. Picture someone you know being buried up to the neck and killed in such a manner. But we all know Islam is a religion of compassion, right?


17 posted on 02/04/2005 4:32:11 PM PST by beelzepug (Parking For Witches Only--All Others Will Be Toad.)
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To: RetroWarrior; freedom44

<< woman sentenced to stoning

Are you sure she doesn't post at DU? >>

Nah.

No-one over there needs any more stoning.

They're all already ass-deep in stoned.


18 posted on 02/04/2005 4:35:57 PM PST by Brian Allen (I fly and can therefore be envious of no man -- Per Adua Ad Astra!)
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To: beelzepug

Hey, Islam is barbaric. Murder is barbaric too. Yawwwwwnnnn.


19 posted on 02/04/2005 4:42:12 PM PST by Burr5
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To: freedom44

No Death Row? We need to help people ,not meddle in their affairs.


20 posted on 02/04/2005 4:44:32 PM PST by southronbtgoG (If I knew everything , I'd be ,,,well I don't come close)
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