The European Union, the United Nations and human rights advocates inside and outside Iran have decried stoning, which is enshrined in the country's Islamic legal code as a punishment for homosexuality and adultery. Condemned men are buried in sand up to their waists, and women up to their necks, and are pelted with stones until they die or manage to escape. Under the law, a condemned person's life is spared if he can free himself.
Well, how libertarian of them. A sporting chance. Not unlike witch-dunking, in the grand Euro tradition. We (or certain American religious sects) may have more in common w/ them than has been thought.
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