The practice of stoning women in countries like Iran certainly compares with the Nazis. One such example was dramatized in the movie "The Stoning of Soraya M". Here a woman was accused of cheating on her husband, and she is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by stoning by a tribunal of all men including her husband who just wanted to be with another woman.

The practice of stoning women in countries like Iran certainly compares with the Nazis. One such example was dramatized in the movie "The Stoning of Soraya M". Here a woman was accused of cheating on her husband, and she is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by stoning by a tribunal of all men including her husband who just wanted to be with another woman.

If you've ever thought about death by stoning, it could be the most brutal death imaginable. The woman is put in a hole, and all of the town's people (who've been worked up into a frenzy by the accusations against this woman) throw stones at her until she dies by bleeding to death. According to Iranian law, the stones must be big enough to inflict injury and cause maximum pain, but not so large that they would cause the victim to die immediately.

What kind of value system is this to allow for execution of women by stoning? I realize Iranian culture is much different than what Westerners are familiar with, but I cannot imagine what drives this. It says that someone who commits adultery or is even accused of adultery, because that sin is so great, can be sentenced to the most brutal death imaginable. Human rights groups have denounced that practice of death by stoning, but the practice continues to this day.