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Woman to Be Stoned to Death for Murder

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A 38-year-old Iranian women is to be stoned to death under Iran's Islamic law for murdering her husband, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

An accomplice, a 24-year-old man, will be hanged for the killing of the woman's 42-year-old husband, who was stabbed to death and buried alongside a cow's skull in a fruit garden outside Karaj, a town close to the capital Tehran, Hambastegi daily said.

It did not say when the sentences would be carried out, but public executions normally take place where the crime occurred. Stoning is relatively rare in Iran, where drug smugglers and murderers are regularly hanged under strict Islamic Sharia law.

Men who are stoned to death are first buried waist-deep in the ground. If they manage to escape, they can go free. Women are buried deeper to stop stones hitting their breasts.

-- CD (costavike@hotmail.com), May 17, 2001

Answers

Just for the record, I'm willing to chance a strike on the breast for an equal opportunity to escape the pit...

-- helen (uh@huh.hmm), May 17, 2001.

Interesting that no mention is made of the reason for Hubby's murder in the first place. Maybe she got tired of him leaving their tent in the morning with dirty towels on his head.

Dan V.

-- Jimmy Splinters (jsplinters@earthlink.net), May 18, 2001.

racist bastard

-- bastard (jim@is.aracist), May 18, 2001.