Do only children and Biblical characters still stone people?

Answer 1

If you consider Muslims to be children (and in some ways they ARE childlike), then yes.

Answer 2

I think Muslim countries stone women who have extramarital affairs, they let their own children even throw the stones. This is a practise done in Middle Eastern Countries and has been around forever. When was the last time you heard of a North American being stone. Yeah, I thought you couldn't remember. You guys drag up stuff from the stone ages and act like it was headline news yesterday.

Answer 3

Stoning is a brutal and outdated practice that is kept alive only by Muslims under Sharia rule. Although it has been practiced since biblical times, every other culture has systematically ceased the practice in favor of more humane forms of punishment. The torturous sentence leaves the victim in agony. The only solitude the punished has is that they will soon die.

Stoning is typically a punishment for adultery, although it can also be use for cases of incest and other sexual or “moral” crimes. Typically, a stoning victim is first wrapped in cloth and buried up to the waist for men, or up to the chest for females. Then the crowd is to throw stones at the victim. However, it is very important that, “… no stone should be thrown that should kill with the first or second blow, or so small as a pebble to do no injury to the condemned.” (Hulagu's Web, 64) Stoning is a unique form of punishment in that there is no single executioner. The simplistic act of gathering the victim’s peers around him creates killers out of everyone.

Today, stoning is only practiced in Islamic culture in order to maintain the submission of its women and those in the lower cast. Only those impoverished or socially unimportant are punished by stoning. This barbaric act parallels those of the 4th century Theodosius who punished those who did not share his religious views. He ordered all non-Christian temples be destroyed and that all heathens be executed unless they convert. His decree now lives on in the hands of religious Islamic tyrants that now employ the brutal act of stoning. These acts of barbarism and violence far outweigh the moral transgression of those condemned.

Answer 4

Woah, children? I don't know. Remember "The Lottery". Good short story about an entire town that has an annual lottery to choose what unfortunate soul will be stoned by the entire town. Creepy. I don't think anyone practices stoning anymore...not in the US, of course. But I'm sure that in some other third world countries they have a consequence similar to that of stoning.

Answer 5

I heard a few years ago in the news about a woman in Nigeria who was sentenced to be stoned to death for commiting adultery.

Answer 6

Hm, I've looked around and there seems to be a lot of people getting stoned these days. 8^)

Answer 7

Unfortunately no, stoning is still used as a punishment in some countries. :(

Answer 8

I don't really understand, do you mean in present day do people still practice stoning? Yes, adulteresses in the mid east are buried to their necks and stoned to death to this day.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

stoning went out in the dark ages