lapidation

In the background the lapidation of the condemned."

Refusal to perform will be deemed capital offence, penalty is death by lapidation.

She had suffered what she called a 'public lapidation as if she was a criminal'.

Stoning, or lapidation, is a form of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until death ensues.

"What the hell is lapidation?"

According to tradition, he was martyred by lapidation during the reign of Julian the Apostate with two companions.

Mrs Izquierdo Rojo raised the question of female lapidation in Iran.

("Lapidation" is good; it is much more elegant than "stoning.")

The ritual is characterized by waist high burial in earth followed by lapidation (death by stoning).

The Commission remains deeply concerned by the human rights situation in Iran and views the practice of execution by lapidation as particularly abhorrent.

Bernard Buffet, La Lapidation (1948)

The term is an archaic Romanian word, rooted in the Latin term lapidus ("stone"; cf. lapidation).

"Gérard Latulippe : une lapidation publique mal intentionnée", Lesanalystes.

Indeed, caning is a relatively mild punishment compared to some of the other extremely brutal methods of punishment used in some Muslim countries, including amputation, lapidation and beheading.

PLANET OF EXILE and must be sealed by lapidation, and the Elders dispersed.

I also regret the new Constitution, which gives primacy to Sharia law over international, UN, civil, and political treaty obligations: this may cause conflict over areas such as female lapidation.

St. Stephen's was one of two City churches dedicated to the Christian protomartyr St. Stephen who, by tradition, suffered lapidation in Jerusalem in about 35 AD.

By a miracle Ervehe survives her lapidation and is picked out of the rubble, severely injured, by a passing nobleman who hears her lament and takes her home to his wife.

As I have had occasion to say to foreign ministers from a number of countries, it is very difficult for us in Europe to accept that female lapidation is consistent with internationally acceptable norms of behaviour and of human rights.

The introduction of Sharia law since 1999 has been particularly divisive and we have witnessed the imposition - although not yet carried out - of lapidation, or stoning to death sentences on women convicted of the so-called crime of adultery.

But Rousseau had made himself persona non grata in Geneva, antagonizing local clergymen and politicians with his fearless polemics and becoming the victim of lapidation - that is, the stoning of his house - even after he had been exiled.

The official text of Article 308 in French provides, "Tout musulman majeur qui aura commis un acte impudique ou contre nature avec un individu de son sexe sera puni de peine de mort par lapidation publique."

Stoning, or lapidation, refers to a form of capital punishment whereby an organized group throws stones at an individual until the person dies, or (in ancient Judaism) the condemned person is pushed from a platform set high enough above a stone floor that the fall would probably result in instantaneous death.

In one CSI: Miami 2011 episode a female college bully is murdered by lapidation Although Islamic law prescribes stoning for married adulterers, the television series Sleeper Cell, about an underground radical Islamist group, depicts a scene where a member is stoned for treason.