stoning
Prepping cherries, maybe
Stoning is execution or punishment by throwing stones at the victim until dead.
It appears in ancient legal codes and religious texts as punishment for adultery, blasphemy, or other offenses.
The practice persists in some countries under religious law.
Stoning also refers to removing stones from fruit: stoning cherries.
In slang, stoning means getting high on drugs.
Striking repeatedly with projectiles
- hurlingPowerful propulsion by arm
- castingShaping through liquid form
- flingingPropelling with force
- projectileLaunched airborne object
rocks · pebbles · catapult · sling · mob · riot · assault · attack
Execution by legal authority
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- shariaMuslim canonical jurisprudence
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
- blasphemyIrreverence toward the sacred
apostasy · heresy · public execution · biblical · mob justice · condemnation · retribution · martyrdom
pelting
Striking repeatedly with projectiles
projectile · rocks · pebbles · catapult · sling · mob · riot · assault · attack · battery
capital punishment
Execution by legal authority
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- shariaMuslim canonical jurisprudence
- adulteryMarried person's sexual betrayal
blasphemy · apostasy · heresy · public execution · biblical · mob justice · condemnation · retribution · martyrdom · Saint Stephen
high
Great in altitude
- marijuanaPsychoactive hemp plant
- intoxicatedAffected by alcohol
- bakedCooked by dry heat
blazed · weed · THC · edibles · joint · smoking · cannabis · impaired · munchies · red-eyed
pavers
Flat stones for walkways
roadwork · paving · granite · slate · sett · pathway · driveway · courtyard · masonry · aggregate
- ancient justicepublic trial, ordeal, trial by ordeal, trial by combat, Sanhedrin
- biblical punishmentsplagues, banishment, pestilence, destruction, wrath
- Torah lawsTen Commandments, Sabbath observance, kosher laws, dietary laws, tefillin
- torturerack, the rack, thumbscrew, thumbscrews, iron maiden
- Hajjhajj, Mecca, Makkah, Kaaba, Arafat
- Islamic practicessalah, salat, hajj, zakat, five pillars
stoninglethal injection
Capital punishment by needle
hanging · electrocution · firing squad · beheading · guillotine
stoninglethal injection
Capital punishment by needle
rehabilitation · incarceration · due process · judicial review
stoningpardon
Official release from punishment
forgiveness · mercy · pardoning · absolution · clemency