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Islamic State Stones Couple to Death for 'Crime of Adultery'
The Islamic State stoned to death a man and a woman in Iraq who they accused of committing adultery. Speaking to Alsumaria News, a local source who requested anonymity, said, "People of the Daash terrorist organization [a derogatory term for the Islamic State, or ISIS] have stoned a man and a woman to death in front of people in the city of a-Ratuba (310 km west of Ramadi)."
He indicated that the stoning "was a result of them being caught them acting intimately in one of the houses in the city."
The source said, "This case is the first of its kind carried out by people of the Daash organization in this area." The source added that "this organization usually kills its victims by shooting them or by slitting their throats with a knife."
A civil servant, speaking to NBC News, also reported witnessing the stoning by the Islamic State. "It is a terrible scene I wish I did not remember," he said, adding that eight fighters from the Islamic State carried out the stoning in front of a crowd of 200 residents of the town.
“They brought the man and the woman, they tied their hands and covered their faces, and started to stone them," he reported, adding that that stones “smaller than a baseball” were specifically chosen to make the death more agonizing.
The witness said that the couple screamed in pain as they were slowly killed over a period of 15 minutes.
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