The judge of the Sharia court said Aisha admitted adultery and asked to be stoned to death. As to the nature of her supposed crime, the details are hazy. Amnesty's sources say she was raped by three men.
Her sister said the execution was un-Islamic, in part because the law requires four witnesses (male, of course) to swear to the adultery before the woman can be killed. I can't see how that's pertinent.
The question isn't whether she was "guilty" of having sex outside of marriage; the question is what kind of society thinks that should be punishable by bloody torture leading to death.
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