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Post by JimC » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:46 am

From today's Age...
Flogged woman faces death by stoning SAEED KAMALI, DEHGHAN
July 4, 2010

A 43-YEAR-old Iranian woman is facing death by stoning unless an international campaign launched by her children forces the authorities to quash what her lawyer calls a bogus conviction.

In a case that highlights the growing use of the death penalty in a country that has already executed more than 100 people this year, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was convicted in May, 2006 of conducting an ''illicit relationship outside marriage.''

Sakineh had already endured a sentence of 99 lashes, but her case was reopened when a court in Tabriz suspected her of murdering her husband. She was acquitted, but the adultery charge was reviewed and a death penalty handed down on the basis of ''judge's knowledge'' - a loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where no conclusive evidence is present.

Her son Sajad, 22, and daughter Farideh, 17, say their mother has been unjustly accused and already punished for something she did not do.

''She's innocent, she's been there for five years for doing nothing'', Sajad said.

He described the imminent execution as barbaric. ''Imagining her, bound inside a deep hole in the ground, stoned to death, has been a nightmare for me and my sister for all these years.''

Under Iranian sharia law, the sentenced individual is buried up to the neck (or to the waist in the case of men), and those attending the public execution are called upon to throw stones. If the convicted person manages to free themselves from the hole, the death sentence is commuted.

Iran, embarrassed by the international attention over stonings, has rarely practised it in public in recent years.

But the country still executed 388 people last year, more than any other country in the world apart from China, according to Amnesty International. Most are hanged.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:40 am

Hey, I can use that "judge's knowledge" to prove Churchill bombed Pearl Harbor. :tup:
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Gawdzilla wrote:Hey, I can use that "judge's knowledge" to prove Churchill bombed Pearl Harbor. :tup:
That bastard!! :lay: They must've taken the co-pilot's seat out of the bomber and put the pilot's seat in the middle. The plane would just go in circles, otherwise. That Winston didn't skip many meals.
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FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Hey, I can use that "judge's knowledge" to prove Churchill bombed Pearl Harbor. :tup:
That bastard!! :lay: They must've taken the co-pilot's seat out of the bomber and put the pilot's seat in the middle. The plane would just go in circles, otherwise. That Winston didn't skip many meals.
The B-17s only had a 8,000 pound capacity. Don't know about the Lancs. Considering that the attack would have been made by Stringbags, I would say two tons, tops. Hence my lack of faith in the WSC theory. It must have been Chiang. :lay:
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Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Hey, I can use that "judge's knowledge" to prove Churchill bombed Pearl Harbor. :tup:
That bastard!! :lay: They must've taken the co-pilot's seat out of the bomber and put the pilot's seat in the middle. The plane would just go in circles, otherwise. That Winston didn't skip many meals.
The B-17s only had a 8,000 pound capacity. Don't know about the Lancs. Considering that the attack would have been made by Stringbags, I would say two tons, tops. Hence my lack of faith in the WSC theory. It must have been Chiang. :lay:
That kai sheks out with my knowledge of the Revolutionary War. :tup:
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FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
FBM wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:Hey, I can use that "judge's knowledge" to prove Churchill bombed Pearl Harbor. :tup:
That bastard!! :lay: They must've taken the co-pilot's seat out of the bomber and put the pilot's seat in the middle. The plane would just go in circles, otherwise. That Winston didn't skip many meals.
The B-17s only had a 8,000 pound capacity. Don't know about the Lancs. Considering that the attack would have been made by Stringbags, I would say two tons, tops. Hence my lack of faith in the WSC theory. It must have been Chiang. :lay:
That kai sheks out with my knowledge of the Revolutionary War. :tup:
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Post by colubridae » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:48 pm

It's funny the perennial israel basher's never seem to appear on these topics. :sighsm:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:08 pm

colubridae wrote:It's funny the perennial israel basher's never seem to appear on these topics. :sighsm:
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Post by colubridae » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:38 pm

colubridae wrote:It's funny the perennial israel bashers never seem to appear on these topics. :sighsm:


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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:39 pm

colubridae wrote:
colubridae wrote:It's funny the perennial israel bashers never seem to appear on these topics. :sighsm:


edit spelling
Would have worked better in the original post. :hehe:
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