"A 42-year-old mother of two faces the punishment of death by stoning in Iran after authorities convicted her of adultery. And according to Mina Ahadi, who heads the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty, only international pressure can help save her.
As Ahadi told CNN: 'Legally it's all over. It's a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute.'"
As Ahadi told CNN: 'Legally it's all over. It's a done deal. Sakineh can be stoned at any minute.'"
As horrid as this is, there's something to be said for its being up close and personal. Flipping a switch, dropping a bomb from tens of thousands of feet -- we've become so good at impersonal murder, without humane progress that I see, at least this kind of action should be more meaningful, and perhaps more haunting, to the perpetrators. But it says much that we find this horrid yet don't find mega bombs dropped from great distances equally horrid.
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