The Gruesome and Sometimes Bizarre Price of Cheating

Laws of the land recognized the sanctity of marriage. Thus, they impose penalties to anyone who is proven to be guilty of adultery or any other form of adultery. Nevertheless, there are some types of infidelity punishments that go beyond jailing and paying fines.

Since time immemorial, stoning has become a major kind of brutal punishment for philandering. Before, the accused (or ironically the stoning victim) is wrapped with a piece of cloth. Men were buried up to their waist, while the females up to their chest. Then the crowd could begin hurling stones at them until they die.
This practice is still prevalent in a number of Muslim-dominated countries, such as in Iran. During June 29, 2006, an Iranian woman named Malak Ghorbany was sentenced to die by public stoning by the Iranian court. This was after she was found to have committed an adulterous act. Based on their Penal Code, adultery is defined as an intimate relation to an opposite sex other than their partner in marriage. Rape is also considered a form of adultery.

Because numerous human activists have found death by stoning not only gruesome but also inhumane, a petition is being circulated all over the Internet.

Somewhere in Bangkok, Thailand, a 35-year-old-woman got tired of his husband’s cheating ways and decided to take matters into her own hands. When Pornburn Sinthusin returned home after her trip from the metropolis, she was aghast to see her husband together with another woman. Seeking revenge, she intoxicated and drugged her husband. With a use of a very sharp object, Pornburn then cut his husband’s manhood. She the fled the crime scene while the man was brought to the hospital, where he remains in the intensive care unit. Police are suspecting that both the penis and the weapon are still with the suspect as neither of them can be located in the house or even in their toilet.

Harsh punishments too do not pick any age. In Paris, for example, a group of miliants are condemning the execution of a 16-year-old girl after she was convicted of adultery. This created a war between the Muslim conservatives and the liberalists, especially with regards to women’s rights under the Islamic law. The latter believes that there should be fair judgment that should be awarded for both males and females in the grounds of cheating.