Stoned

What is wrong with people? How can anyone lash or murder someone for the most natural of acts: having sex?

From http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/06/iran.stoning/index.html?eref=rss_world&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+rss/cnn_world+(RSS:+World)&utm_content=Google+International&fbid=nZR3U2nWrk3

Convicted of adultery in 2006, Ashtiani has been sentenced to be stoned to death for her alleged crime.

Originally sentenced to 99 lashes for her alleged "illicit relationship outside of marriage," Ashtiani endured that punishment in front of her then 17-year-old son.

And from http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/01/iran.stoning/index.html?iref=obinsite&fbid=nZR3U2nWrk3

Ashtiani was forced to confess after being subjected to 99 lashes, Mostafaei said Thursday in a telephone interview from Tehran.

She later retracted that confession and has denied wrongdoing. Her conviction was based not on evidence but on the determination of three out of five judges, Mostafaei said. She has asked forgiveness from the court but the judges refused to grant clemency.

the above article continues:

Article 74 of the Iranian penal code requires at least four witnesses -- four men or three men and two women -- for an adulterer to receive a stoning sentence, said Mina Ahadi, coordinator for the International Committee Against Stoning. But there were no witnesses in Ashtiani's case. Often, said Ahadi, husbands turn wives in to get out of a marriage

How much hatred must you feel to want to your wife  lashed or stoned to death rather than simply getting divorced?.