Karzai: Public stoning should go through proper channels-BBC

• 8/16, BBC: "Taliban 'kill adulterous Afghan couple',"

"A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Waheed Omar, said if the incident (stoning to death) was confirmed it would be condemned in the strongest terms by the government.

• "Even in Islam this [stoning] has to be done
  

• through proper judicial systems," he said....

This month the Taliban also reportedly flogged and killed a pregnant widow in western Baghdis province."...

• Stoning is part of sharia law in many places.
  

"It still exists on the law books in Afghanistan, Iran, sections of Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates.

• ...Ayatollah Shahroudi, the head of Iran’s judiciary, ...in 2002 said stoning should no longer exist in Iranian law.

Despite Shahroudi’s stance, stoning continues to remain on the law books in Iran and

• lower judges are free to sentence adulterers to that method of punishment."

Reference, MSNBC and news service reports, 7/8/10, "Where is stoning legal, and how is it done?"