July 10
TEHRAN, Iran — In a rare confirmation, Iran on Tuesday said a man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in the northern part of the country. It was the first time in years that Iran has confirmed such an execution. This verdict was carried out Thursday

Under Islamic rulings, a male convict is usually buried up to his waist while a female criminal is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried.

Those carrying out the verdict start throwing stones and rocks at the convict until he or she dies.

The reported execution comes two weeks after international pressure, including protests from Norway, caused Iranian officials to delay carrying out the sentence against Kiani and his female companion, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, who also was sentenced to death by stoning. It was not known if a date had been set for her execution.

The couple had reportedly been imprisoned for 11 years.

Stoning was widely imposed in the early years after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. But in recent years, it has rarely been applied, though the government rarely confirms when it carries out stoning sentences.

Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.
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good thats what they deserve.

If you're serious...it isn't funny...

If you aren't serious...it isn't funny...

Death for adultery?
For sex between consenting adults?
You must be kidding, War-Junkie.

If anyone doubts that the West is a vastly superior civilization, they should be reminded of this barbarity.
The Iranian government and its supporters are insane. Al Quaeda is insane. They are brutal butchers that have a singlemost thought in mind: Convert to Islam or die as an enemy of the faith!
They are acting the same as Christians did during the Spanish Inquisition.
I don't subscribe to any organized religion. I'm content to let people believe what they wish, but when they practice such barbarity in the name of God, and demand that I convert or die, then they lose all my consideration as a decent, thinking human being.
Despite its protests of innocence, Iran wants a nuclear program to create bombs to threaten the world.
Would you trust a government that sentenced a man to death, who merely had sex with another man's wife, by a slow, torturous execution?