Death by Stoning!

Imagine your community had a gathering at the local park this weekend. All your friends and neighbors are here for the big event. The woman down the street has been accused of adultery by her husband and three of his friends, so she has been sentenced to death by stoning. 

Yeah isn't it horrible?

What is stoning?

it is a method of punishment where a group of people throws a stone at a person until the person dies.It has been taken as a form of punishment for grave misdeeds since ancient times.
Its adoption in some legal systems has caused controversy in recent decades.
In recent times, stoning has been a legal or customary punishment in the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Qatar, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Northern Nigeria, Afghanistan, Brunei , and tribal parts of Pakistan, including northwest Kurram Valley and the northwest Khwezai-Baezai region  

What happened..?

In the middle of the field, the woman is buried in the ground up to her chest and everyone is circled around her. There are piles of stones ready to be thrown. These stones are large enough that they will cause life-ending damage, but not too big to kill her on impact. The stoning is meant to be a slow, painful, and deliberate death.

The husband has the “honor” to throw the first stone. Then her children are coaxed into taking part. They are told to do it for God. The woman is allowed to try and escape, but she is buried too deeply. For the next 10 to 20 minutes the rest of the community joins in.

I wish this description was a nightmarish fiction, but in some countries, this form of capital punishment still exists. The details remain the same, aside from the fact that it is not happening right down the street.

I realized as I watched the movie "The Stoning of Soraya M."

The Stoning of Soraya M." which is based on the true story of the stoning-to-death of Soraya Manutchehri in Iran in the 1980s. Soraya is falsely convicted of adultery by a Sharia court and a sentence of death-by-stoning is her punishment. In the movie, one of the most horrific moments is when the father encourages her two eldest children to throw stones at their own helpless mother. 

Stoning in India

There are many cases of Stoned to death in India. Last year in 2019-

• Relatives of an Indian woman who married outside her caste and fled her home to escape punishment stoned her and her husband to death after the couple returned to their village to visit family.The 29-year-old couple, from the same village in the southern state of Karnataka, had married three years ago against the wishes of their families and moved to Bangalore and other cities in the region, and had two children.

• A 16-year-old boy was allegedly beaten to death by an unidentified person in Deer Park in Seemapuri area , Delhi.

•The wife of the Uttar Pradesh man who held 23 children hostage at a birthday party has died of injuries after she was beaten and attacked with stones by neighbours. 

Even though stoning is not legal, it will likely continue to happen unofficially.
If the public outcry is loud enough, these punishments can be prevented.

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