Posted on 08/07/2008 2:52:49 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's judiciary has decided to scrap the punishment of stoning convicts to death in draft legislation submitted to parliament for approval, the local press reported on Wednesday.
Judiciary spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi was also quoted as saying that stoning sentences against several convicts had been suspended, with four commuted to either lashes of the whip or jail terms.
"In the latest version of the Islamic penal codes bill, which has undergone several modifications, such punishments are not mentioned," Jamshidi said, the reformist Etemad newspaper reported, referring to both stoning and amputation.
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Iran suspends execution by stoning
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/2507499/Iran-suspends-execution-by-stoning.html
Last Updated: 11:56PM BST 05 Aug 2008
Iran: ‘beheadings as so much more fun anyways.’
What are the other choices? Being hung on a crane? Beheadings? Gunshot to the head in a soccer stadium during time outs?
“Instead we’re just gonna nuke everyone to bits!!!”
Heave-Ho And Over You Go!
...to be replaced by woodchippers. There aren’t enough strong-armed men left in the country.
The must be in the running for the 2016 olympics host
Burying a woman up to the shoulders in preparation for stoning.
Look. I’d had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, ‘That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.’
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