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[[File:220px-Tissot_The_Sabbath-Breaker_Stoned.jpg|thumb|400px|The Sabbath-breaker Stoned. Artistic impression of episode narrated in Numbers 15. James Tissot c.1900]] '''Stoning''' is an ancient form of execution and [[torture]] where the victim was either tied up, buried or simply forced to stand in place as crowds hurled rocks at them until they died, often the rocks were large enough to do damage without instant death and as such the execution was long, painful and exceptionally cruel.
[[File:Michael Damaskinos Stoning of Saint Stephen.png|thumb|400px|The stoning of St. Stephen.]] '''Stoning''' is an ancient form of execution and [[torture]] where the victim was either tied up, buried or simply forced to stand in place as crowds hurled rocks at them until they died, often the rocks were large enough to do damage without instant death and as such the execution was long, painful and exceptionally cruel.
==Background==
==Background==
The Torah and Talmud prescribe stoning as punishment for a number of offenses. Over the centuries, Rabbinic Judaism developed a number of procedural constraints which made these laws practically unenforceable. Although stoning is not mentioned in the Quran, classical Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) imposed stoning as a hadd (sharia-prescribed) punishment for certain forms of zina (illicit sexual intercourse) on the basis of hadith (sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad). It also developed a number of procedural requirements which made zina difficult to prove in practice.
The Torah and Talmud prescribe stoning as punishment for a number of offenses. Over the centuries, Rabbinic Judaism developed a number of procedural constraints which made these laws practically unenforceable. Although stoning is not mentioned in the Quran, classical Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) imposed stoning as a hadd (sharia-prescribed) punishment for certain forms of zina (illicit sexual intercourse) on the basis of hadith (sayings and actions attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad). It also developed a number of procedural requirements which made zina difficult to prove in practice.