ISIS: Man and woman stoned to death 'for pre-marital sex'

Sickening images have emerged of a man and woman appearing to be stoned to death by Islamic State militants for 'having sex before marriage'.

The images show a large crowd gathered around the pair in ISIS-controlled city Mosul, in northern Iraq, as the bound and blindfolded couple are murdered in the street.

 

A charge sheet is said to have been read to the crowd accusing the man and woman - both believed to be in their 20s - of 'fornication' and announcing their barbaric punishment. 

A large pile of stones and rocks were then hurled by around 12 jihadis, leaving the road in the public square covered in blood.

The killing was the latest in a series of public executions in the city of people accused of social and religious crimes.

Mosul shop owner Abu Mohammad al-Lahibi told the New York Times: "Twelve ISIS militants were standing there who had bags with them filled with stones, and they began throwing the stones at them, and after the third stone the woman was killed. The man died a short while later."

...TheMirror