Woman faces death by stoning

Tehran - A 38-year-old Iranian women is to be stoned to death under Iran's Islamic law for murdering her husband, a newspaper…

Tehran - A 38-year-old Iranian women is to be stoned to death under Iran's Islamic law for murdering her husband, a newspaper reported yesterday. An accomplice, a 24-yearold man, will be hanged for the killing of the woman's 42year-old husband, who was stabbed to death and buried alongside a cow's skull in a fruit garden outside Karaj, a town close to the capital, Tehran, the Hambastegi daily said.

Stoning is relatively rare in Iran where drug-smugglers and murderers are regularly hanged under Islamic Sharia law.