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Iran to scrap death by stoning
AFP ^ | Aug, 06 2008 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: execution; iran; islam; justice; lethewhoiswithoutsin; mohammedanism; stoning
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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

1 posted on 08/07/2008 2:52:49 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative
Iran to scrap death by stoning

Well that's awfully White of them.
2 posted on 08/07/2008 2:54:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Paleo Conservative

Iran: ‘beheadings as so much more fun anyways.’


3 posted on 08/07/2008 2:57:17 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
How benevolent of them!

What are the other choices? Being hung on a crane? Beheadings? Gunshot to the head in a soccer stadium during time outs?

4 posted on 08/07/2008 3:03:21 PM PDT by John123 (Obambi said that he has been in 57 states. I will now light myself on fire...)
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To: Paleo Conservative

“Instead we’re just gonna nuke everyone to bits!!!”


5 posted on 08/07/2008 3:04:23 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obamuh uh uh uh uh uh uh ummmmmm)
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To: John123
I think they will just rely on the old stand by and throw them off a cliff!

Heave-Ho And Over You Go!

6 posted on 08/07/2008 3:08:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Paleo Conservative

...to be replaced by woodchippers. There aren’t enough strong-armed men left in the country.


7 posted on 08/07/2008 3:09:50 PM PDT by Melinda
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To: Paleo Conservative

The must be in the running for the 2016 olympics host


8 posted on 08/07/2008 3:16:12 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
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To: Paleo Conservative

Burying a woman up to the shoulders in preparation for stoning.

9 posted on 08/07/2008 3:22:45 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Paleo Conservative

Look. I’d had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was, ‘That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.’


10 posted on 08/07/2008 3:26:05 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (The road to hell is paved with the stones of pragmatism.)
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