Compassionate Islamofascism

Jimmy Carter, worst president ever, will probably hail this as a breakthrough and issue a call for dialogue.

Iran stays stoning sentence for couple

A man and woman have been sentenced to death by stoning for A man and woman have been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery in Iran but the judiciary has ordered a stay of execution, Iranian news agencies reported on Wednesday.

Hassan Qasemi, a judiciary official in Qazvin province, west of the capital, denied what he said were some media reports that the sentence would be carried out shortly, "When the judiciary head heard the news, he ... ordered a stay of sentence," Qasemi said. The penalty of stoning usually involves victims being buried up to their midriffs and then pelted to death with stones that are not big enough to kill instantly.

I'm sure this was just a clerical error and the couple will be stoned shortly.