STONING

Stoning

Stoning, or lapidation, is a form of capital punishment whereby a group throws stones at a person until death ensues. No individual among the group can be identified as the one who kills the subject, yet everyone involved plainly bears some degree of moral culpability. This is in contrast to the case of a judicial executioner. Slower than other forms of execution, stoning is a form of execution by torture.

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stoning

Noun

  1. Lapidation: punishment by throwing stones, usually resulting in death

Verb

stoning



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