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shafique wrote:FD is right - 100 lashes and done without mercy is indeed the punishment for adultery in Islam (it is also the punishment for fornication).
The punishment is harsh, but so also is the burden of proof - you need 4 witnesses to the deed. Many argue that in practice this is so high that it is practically impossible to find someone guilty of adultery.
I'm not aware of the sentence to hanging being widely condemned in the Muslim world and frankly would be surprised if there are many who voiciferously protest against it. There are too many who do believe that stoning is a valid punishment for adultery etc.
I believe there should indeed be more widespread protest than there is. (But I haven't checked to see what Islamic authorities are saying about this)
Cheers,
Shafique
Volume 8, Book 82, Number 819:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle judged that the unmarried person who was guilty of illegal sexual intercourse be exiled for one year and receive the legal punishment (i.e., be flogged with one-hundred stripes) .
desertdudeshj wrote:If someone is going to willingy confess knowing very well the outcome then their mental state needs to be looked into, and an insane or mentally ill person cannot be held accountable for his/her actions or ateast needs to be looked into wheter he is capable of rational thought.
Execution by lethal injection may not be the painless procedure most Americans assume, say researchers from Florida and Virginia.
They examined post-mortem blood levels of anaesthetic and believe that prisoners may have been capable of feeling pain in almost 90% of cases and may have actually been conscious when they were put to death in over 40% of cases.
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated in the US, 788 people have been killed by lethal injection. The procedure typically involves the injection of three substances: first, sodium thiopental to induce anaesthesia, followed by pancuronium bromide to relax muscles, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart.
But doctors and nurses are prohibited by healthcare professionals' ethical guidelines from participating in or assisting with executions, and the technicians involved have no specific training in administering anaesthetics.
"My impression is that lethal injection as practiced in the US now is no more humane than the gas chamber or electrocution, which have both been deemed inhumane," says Leonidas Koniaris, a surgeon in Miami and one of the authors on the paper. He is not, he told New Scientist, against the death penalty per se.
But Kyle Janek, a Texas senator and anaesthesiologist, and a vocal advocate of the death penalty, insists that levels of anaesthetic are more than adequate. He says that an inmate will typically receive up to 3 grams - about 10 times the amount given before surgery. "I can attest with all medical certainty that anyone receiving that massive dose will be under anaesthesia," he said in a recent editorial.
desertdudeshj wrote:On a side note I was watching a documentry of an English man trying to find the perfect and humane way to execute prisoners and when he came up with one and talked to a few people in the US who were there at an execution and revealed his findings to a family member/pro death activist ( can't remember which ) The person totally disregarded it. Saying they don't want the execution to be humane. The condemened suffer for a while ( talking about lethal injection here ) so what ? The people they brutaly murdered suffered much more and their suffering was nothing when compared to their victims.
So I dunno, capital punishment is supposed to be a deterant and the worse the punish I guess bigger the deterent.
Manouchehr Mottaki assured me that Iranian legal authorities had not yet reached a verdict in the affair relating to [Ms Ashtiani] and that the information regarding her alleged execution did not correspond to reality," Mr Kouchner said in a statement.