Adultery

===Stoning===
[[File:Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 201.png|thumbnail|[[Jesus and the woman taken in adultery]] by [[Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld]], 1860, where Jesus said that the man who was without sin should throw the first stone.]]
{{Main|Stoning}}
[[Stoning]], or lapidation, refers to a form of [[capital punishment]] whereby an organized group throws stones at an individual until the person dies, or the condemned person is pushed from a platform set high enough above a stone floor that the fall would probably result in instantaneous death.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.jlaw.com/Briefs/capital2.html|title = Examining Halcha, Jewish issues and secular law|last = Rapps|first = Dennis|author2 = Weinberg, Lewin|date = December 1999|work = Jewish Law:Legal briefs|publisher = Ira Kasdan|access-date = 9 October 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091105092848/http://www.jlaw.com/Briefs/capital2.html|archive-date = 5 November 2009|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Stoning continues to be practiced today, in parts of the world. Recently, several people have been sentenced to death by stoning after being accused of adultery in Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Mali, and Pakistan by tribal courts.<ref>Examples include:

* {{cite news |date=18 November 2009 |title=Somali woman stoned for adultery |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8366197.stm |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001074344/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8366197.stm |archive-date=1 October 2010}}
* {{cite news |author1=Robert Tait |author2=Noushin Hoseiny |date=21 July 2008 |title=Eight women and a man face stoning in Iran for adultery |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/21/iran.humanrights |url-status=live |access-date=24 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130902131353/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/21/iran.humanrights |archive-date=2 September 2013}}
* [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479752,00.html "Two Men Stoned to Death for Adultery in Iran".] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527200840/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479752,00.html|date=27 May 2013}}
* {{cite news |date=16 August 2010 |title=Taliban 'kill adulterous Afghan couple' |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10983494 |url-status=live |access-date=21 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709180216/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10983494 |archive-date=9 July 2018}}
* [http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2011/01/27/woman-stoned-to-death-in-north-afghanistan.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112041848/http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2011/01/27/woman-stoned-to-death-in-north-afghanistan.html|author=Quentin Sommerville|title=Woman stoned to death in north Afghanistan {{!}} A boulder is then thrown at her head, her burka is soaked in blood, and she collapses inside the hole|date=|archive-date=2012-01-12}}
* {{cite news |last=Smith |first=David |date=May 31, 2012 |title=Sudanese woman sentenced to stoning death over adultery claims |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/sudanese-woman-stoning-death-adultery |url-status=live |access-date=16 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170226063901/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/31/sudanese-woman-stoning-death-adultery |archive-date=2017-02-26}}
* [http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/africa/mali-couple-stoned/index.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904150346/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/02/world/africa/mali-couple-stoned/index.html|author=Katarina Hoije|title=Islamists: Two stoned to death for committing adultery in Mali|publisher=CNN|date=|archive-date=2012-09-04}}
* [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/18/couple-sentenced-pakistan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305023803/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/18/couple-sentenced-pakistan|author=Saeed Shah|title=Pakistani couple face death by stoning threat after conviction for adultery|date=|publisher=The Guardian|archive-date=2017-03-05}}</ref>