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Muslims and the death penalty

Date: January 21, 2003 | 18 Dhu-l-Qidah 1423 Hijriah
Blog: veiled4allah
Subjects: law, issues
In the death penalty debate in America, there are three basic positions. Some people give full support to the use of the death penalty. Some people oppose it completely on the grounds that it is cruel and unusual punishment. And some people feel that a death penalty is acceptable in principle, but the way it is being applied in America is unjust. Views of Growing Islamic Faith Enter Death Penalty Debate profiles Muslims who fall into this third group and the Islamic sources they cite to support their position.

This kind of reform needs desperately to be brought to many Muslim countries as well. The way that countries like Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia, among others, implement the death penalty is a perversion of the Shari'a. They inflict it for crimes that it should not be inflicted for and they completely ignore the standards of proof that Islamic law sets. They should remember Allah SWT's teaching in the Quran that whoever kills an innocent person wrongly is to Him as though they had killed all of humankind (Surah al-Ma'ida ayah 32).

Here is a good overview, looking at the laws of Malaysia. Standards of proof for adultery are discussed here with special attention to Nigeria (see also this discussion of how adultery laws are further perverted to punish rape victims in Pakistan). I have linked all of these articles in my blog posts or comments previously.

Update: Here's an article that shows the Jewish position to be fairly similar to the Muslim position.
~ Posted by Al-Muhajabah, a member of the reality-based community, at 10:11 PM

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