I hope that gruesome images in the news result in some social change and public outrage but I fear it will be just a spectator sport for so many.
AP | FAKHRURRADZIE GADE | Posted 11.14.2009 | World
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stonin...
Marshall Fine | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment
Director Cyrus Nowrasteh's movie, The Stoning of Soraya M, based on real events, wants to open eyes to a barbaric legal system that still allows stoning.
Chip Hanlon | Posted 07.17.2009 | Entertainment
The fact that stoning still occurs today is proof that too few understand its barbarity or frequency. Anyone who claims to care about the most basic of human rights, this film is a must.
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.27.2009 | World
It is problematic that characters in these stories -- the Pope, a member of India's Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, a Knesset leader, a Canadian federal minister -- are influential, mainstream figures.
AP | ALI AKBAR DAREINI | Posted 02.13.2009 | World
TEHRAN, Iran — Two men convicted of adultery were stoned to death in northeastern Iran last month but a third convicted man managed to escape, I...
Jamie Lee Curtis | Posted 12.16.2009 | Media