BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put ...

Police detained two women after a 47-year-old was stoned to death in Angul. Investigation continues as motive remains unclear ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A pregnant Pakistani woman beaten and stoned to death by her own family for marrying against their wishes was buried before dawn Wednesday as police pressed a manhunt for those who ...

The Taliban has quickly returned to harsh public punishments in Afghanistan - Ebrahim Noroozi/AP The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the ...

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party said that one of its supporters was beaten and stoned to death while on his way to a political rally on Thursday, allegedly by activists from the ruling party, three ...

ISLAMABAD, May 28 (Reuters) - The postmortem of a Pakistani woman killed for marrying the man she loved has established that she was five months pregnant, her stepson told Reuters on Wednesday.

KATSINA, Nigeria -- An Islamic court overturned the conviction of an illiterate mother sentenced to be stoned to death for having sex out of wedlock, easing pressure on the Nigerian government in a ...

On . . . June 29, 2006, a court in the Islamic Republic of Iran sentenced Malak Ghorbany, a 34-year-old mother of two, to a brutal death by stoning after finding her guilty of adultery. . . . Two men ...

The harrowing climax in the new film The Stoning of Soraya M. depicts a woman being brutally stoned to death after she's falsely accused of marital infidelity. Director Cyrus Nowrasteh and actress ...

Imagine your community had a gathering at the local park this weekend. All your friends and neighbors are here for the big event. The woman down the street has been accused of adultery by her husband ...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A man was stoned to death in Iran for adultery but the woman involved in the case repented, the judiciary said on Tuesday, suggesting her life was spared. The Islamic Republic has ...