GETTING STONED IN THE MIDDLE EAST AIN'T THE SAME AS GETTING STONED IN THE U.S.

An Iranian mother-of-two faces death by stoning after being convicted of adultery. Come to think of it, stoning would be much more appropriate for America's child-molesting killers, rapist-murderers and other particularly vicious killers than putting them to sleep with a needle.
　
Here is a report from Mail Online on executions in Iran [and Saudi Arabia]:

Under Iran’s Islamic penal code adultery is punishable by stoning to death or flogging, while hanging is the penalty for murder and other capital crimes such as drug trafficking.
　
According to the country’s law the stones must be neither too big nor too small, so that death is neither mercifully quick nor endlessly prolonged. Some stoning victims are said to have taken 20 minutes to die.
　
Stoning sentences were widely carried out in the early years after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, but have been rare in recent years.
　
The Iranian judiciary officially placed a moratorium on stoning in 2002, although the punishment remained on the books.
　
A group of Iranian lawyers – including prominent women's rights activists, have been campaigning for years to have stoning as a penalty removed from Iranian law.
　
The majority of those stoned are women, who suffer disproportionately from such punishment, human rights groups say.
　
One reason, activists say, is that women are not treated equally before the law and the courts.

Also, men stoned to death are buried to the waist, while women are buried deeper, to stop the stones from hitting their breasts.
　
This apparent regard for a woman's modesty actually has a negative impact for women.
　
If a prisoner manages to pull free during a stoning, he or she is acquitted or jailed, but is not executed. It is easier for a man to drag himself free because he is not buried so deeply.
　
In December 2008 a man convicted of adultery escaped death by stoning by dragging himself out of the pit he had been buried in for the punishment.
　
But two other alleged male adulterers were killed by the barbaric method in the same incident, which took place in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.
　
Iranian activists against stoning say it is not prescribed in the Koran.
　
In terms of its population Iran has the highest execution rate in the world.
　
Amnesty International has recorded no fewer than 126 executions between January and June – among them five political prisoners.