In the United States, capital punishment consists of electric chairs, lethal injections, and in extremely rare situations, death by firing squad. But in some pockets of Somalia they keep it a little more old school, biblical (Koranic?) even. They stone people to death. According to the AFP, a man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage woman was executed by Islamic fundamentalists using the ancient method in a town 55 miles outside of Mogadishu:
Ten masked men from the al-Shabab forces stoned him to death in front of everyone. They had dug a hole, buried him to his neck before throwing stones at him.
Had he been single though, things could have worked out better for him as one official explained, “He was a married man, which is why the court sentenced him to be stoned to death.” Otherwise he would have skirted with some public flogging. |BBC|