Local newspapers in Kartoum, the capital city of Sudan has reported of a court conviction and sentencing of an unidentified woman to death by stoning for allegedly committing fornication under the Islamic Sharia laws. The sentence was issued after the defendant refused to "retract her earlier confessions" that the child she gave birth to is from a man other than her husband. The man she said she had a sexual relationship with has denied the charge and was therefore acquitted by the judge, Sami Ibrahim Shabo who presides over the general criminal court in Um Bada area.
Sudan is however, predominated by Muslim and supposedly governed by Shariah laws under the rule of the Islamist National Congress Party (NCP). But the courts have not recorded any case(s) of applying the extreme punishments of stoning to death for adultery or the amputation of hands for theft.
This brings to mind the legal principle of punishment commensurate with the crime. In this case, I do not see where the punishment of stoning to death is ever cmmensurate with the crime of adultery/fornication. This punishment under Sharia law appears to me very extreme.
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