The Afghanistan government has rejected a proposal to reintroduce public stoning as a punishment for adultery, following international condemnation.
President Hamid Karzai said that the minister of justice has rejected the grim penalty, which became a symbol of Taliban brutality when the group was in power, the Guardian reports.
According to the report, the government is in the process of forming up a new penal code to unify fragmented rules and cover crimes missed out when the last version was written over three decades back.
A committee tasked with looking at Sharia law as part of the process came up with this draft legislation to subject married adulterers to slow and gruesome death.