Capital punishment in Islam
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
(Redirected from Capital and corporal punishment in Islam)
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
Capital punishment in Islam was traditionally regulated by Sharia, the religious law in Islam. Crimes which could result in capital punishment included murder. In the modern era most Muslim-majority countries adopted criminal legal codes based on European models. Legal forms of capital punishment vary among Islamic countries.
[edit]
See also
- Capital and corporal punishment in Judaism
- Raif Badawi
- Religion and capital punishment#Islam
- Public executions in Saudi Arabia
- Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Capital punishment in Islam" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
