Tag: Death Penalty

A Saudi woman was beheaded after being convicted of practicing “witchcraft and sorcery,” according to the Saudi Interior Ministry, at least the second such execution for sorcery this year.

Under Islamic laws, this is how execution by stoning is carried out in Iran.

Sir Ludovic Kennedy died earlier this week at the age of 89. During a long and eventful career as a journalist, broadcaster, author and campaigner for social justice, Sir Ludovic made a huge contribution to the abolition of the death penalty in Britain through his rigorous investigations into miscarriages of justice. It was he who proved that Timothy Evans — a young man who was wrongly hanged for the murder of his wife — was innocent. Kennedy later campaigned for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and wrote an influential book about atheism, “All in the Mind – a Farewell to God.” He was a long-time honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

A leading Muslim scholar in Egypt has called for the death penalty for those caught smuggling into the country a device which allows women to feign virginity.