-Iran Scraps Mandatory Death Penalty for ‘Apostates’
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009(Image by BL1961 via Flickr)
Iran’s Parliament has dropped the mandatory death penalty for those who leave Islam and convert to other religions. Iran has been under considerable international pressure to drop the ultimate punishment by stoning for ‘apostates’.
This comes at a time when the Iranian government has already been under international scrutiny for the recent [...]







