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• n  the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)
• v  kill by throwing stones at
• v  remove the pits from

• Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stoning, just months after voters overwhelmingly chose to throw .
• The Koran says nothing about stoning.
• The legislative council of the conservative Muslim province of Aceh has unanimously voted for a raft of Shari'a-inspired punishments, among them possible death by stoning for .

• lapidation
• stone
• lapidate
• pit

News & Articles

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• Why do we keep executing people?
  Killing people by lethal injection will soon be as distant a memory as burning heretics at the stake and stoning adulterers -- at least throughout the civilized world. No country that employs the death penalty can be admitted to the European Union, and the practice dwindles daily.
  June 24, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Irshad Manji in Montreal Gazette
  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith? Or should we just stick to the Sermon on the... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA CNN International http://www.google.com/url?q=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/24/evangelical.vote/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNED9eUBGyn2J_rhWbaqfy4yePRMsQ Jun 24, 2008 94957 126197 stoning Never have I seen a campaign against stoning . . . as international and as accelerated as this one," Manji said. "I really hold out the hope that this time the Iranian government has been called out on its nonsense. Even if somehow passion...