Talk:Malak Ghorbany

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[edit] Stoning info

On the day of her punishment, the woman's hands are tied behind her back as she becomes covered from head to toe in winding sheets and is placed seated in a pit. The pit is then filled up to her chest with dirt and the dirt is tamped down. At that point, members of the community are invited to murder her by hurling rocks at her. The Iranian government has mandated the size of the stones that are to be used in this act of public execution, they must not be too small as to prevent ultimate death, nor must they be too large that they could cause the girl's death "too soon."

The above is general info appropriate perhaps to the stoning article (which already has most of it) but not this article. If some of the controversy has been because the method is regarded as unduly cruel, then this can be mentioned with appropriate sources. However we should only talk about this briefly, there is no need to go in to detail for something which is covered in the stoning article. But it is not appropriate for us to talk about how stoning is carried out in Iran in this article. Even more so since the above paragraph is not very NPOV. 'Murder' is debatable and most of it is also applicable to men executed by stoning in Iran as well so the reference to women and girls probably unfairly makes it seems like this is something exclusive to women (of course, women may be more likely to be sentenced to execution by stoning but that's a different issue). Please remember that however much something may disgust you, we still have to be NPOV and only include relevant info. Nil Einne 12:10, 30 October 2006 (UTC)