Lapidation

Latin name lapis lazuli (stone), giving the verb lapidare , literally “to kill with stone blows”, the lapidation is a form of execution, usually used at the time préchrétienne in all the Mediterranean basin. This torment is still used our day in certain Moslem countries.

Presentation

Lapidation applies like capital punishment to the Adultère, with the Blasphème, the Meurtre and the Prostitution. It consists according to the case of a defenestration or a caillassage until dead follows.

Quoted in the Old Testament and the Talmud like capital punishment of adultery, it is rejected by the New Testament: Jesus prevents the lapidation of an adulteress and requires of her indicters: How that among you who is without sin launches him the first stone! In the same way, Talmud claims that Jesus failed to undergo lapidation (Sanhédrin, 43a). Saint Etienne the proto-martyr is most known of all the lapidated people.

The Coran explicitly mentions lapidation like sorrow, neither for adultery nor for some other crime, but announces another later provision. This abrogation is indeed the object of hadiths true, but not a new verse in Coran. The Charia applied in certain countries rests on Hadiths, or accounts of the life of Mahomet to justify this sorrow.

Generally this form of execution is public, the torture victim is thrown in a pit or is buried to the shoulder. In turn or groups the executants of them throw stones of the size of a fist until dead follows. In Iran, the penal code precise: the stones used to inflict death by lapidation will not have to be large so much so that condemned dies after having received one or two of them. They will not have to be so small either that one cannot give them the stone name. The intermediate size is generally selected in order to make expier the fault by the suffering

Lapidation at the time contemporary

Death by lapidation is a torment to which still certain countries resort where the Charia is applied: the Nigeria, the Saudi Arabia, the Iran, the Sudan, the Afghanistan, the Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates. Cases of lapidation also were announced to the Iraqi Kurdistan and the Nepal (made by the guerilla Maoist Nepalese).

Iran

The Iranian Penal code, founded on Charia, gives very precise directives (articles 102 and 104) on the methods of the execution of the adulteresses:

" The stones used to inflict death by lapidation will not have to be large so much so that condemned dies after having received one or two of them. They will not have to be so small either that one cannot give them the stone name. The intermediate size is generally selected in order to make expier the fault by the souffrance".

Source

July 5th, 2007, Jafar Kiani, Iranian condemned for adultery was lapidated with died in Aghche Kand, village of the North-West of the Iran, however that its pled mistress, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, were in prison with her two children, its judgment being outstanding.

In Iran, the torture victim is wrapped in a cloth and is buried until the size for the men, to the neck for the women, then lapidated with death.

Iraqi Kurdistan

In 2007,' Khalil Aswad has was lapidated with died with the Iraqi Kurdistan in the presence of police officers of the regional government.

Fight against lapidation

Lapidation is condemned by many groups, monk or laymen, for various reasons. Certain groups, like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, are opposed to any form of Capital punishment, including lapidation, although they have any direct influence on these countries nor no authority.

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