Hat tip to Robert Spencer for the following:
ADNKRONOS INTERNATIONAL: Tehran, 16 July (AKI) – Iran's chief prosecutor Ghorban Ali Dori Najafabad has defended the death penalty by stoning describing it as a "wise measure".
"Death by stoning and all the measures contained in the Sharia (Islamic law) are wise measures' he said in speech delivered Monday in Zanjan, a town located some 200 kilometres west of the capital Tehran.
"We need to distinguish between the law of bloodmoney and the of executions carried out after the death sentence has been passed. The first is a right the Sharia recognises to the victims, while the second is a law wanted by men", Najafabad said. Iran: Death by stoning a 'wise measure' (more)
Mark Alexander
