In a horrific story, Iranian wife Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced in 2006 to 99 lashes for infidelity. Even though the court and evidence did not support conviction, and she was actually found innocent upon a lack of evidence, the judge used a
loophole that allowed him to overrule the jury's verdict, based upon his "certain knowledge." (You gotta wonder what his certain knowledge was - had he slept with Sakineh, or was he just righteously convinced of her moral failings?)
Sakineh was publicly whipped in 2006, in front of her adult children and the public. Then, after her husband died, Saineh was again tried, thistime for alleged murder (obviously, if she cheated on her husband, she must also be a murderess). She was again found innocent, but this time, the court decided to reopen the conviction of infidelity. This time, they sentenced her to death by stoning. Obviously, the judge, and the courts of Iran have a jones for this poor lady.
Currently, several other women also face death by stoning for infidelity, including one woman who was convicted before she turned eighteen. The sentence could not be carried out before she was a legal adult though. Now that the lady is 19, she faces a grim future.
In a horrible, reality-tv showesque flavor to the death sentence, a woman being stoned to death can have her sentence commuted, if she manages to crawl out of the hole during the execution, while people are throwing rocks at her.(It's interesting that men are only buried to the waist in such executions, while women are buried to the neck. Who do you think manages to get out more often?)
Sakineh's children have started a public campaign to save their mother's life, and you can find it on Facebook. Join, and let's try to right the balance.
source:psychologytoday.com
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