The penalty for adultery is (100 lashes of the whip) for unmarried male and female offenders. Married offenders punished by stoning regardless of their gender, but the method lay down for man involves his burial up to his waist and for a woman up to her neck. Base on law the stones should not be so large that a person dies after being hit with two of them, nor so small as to be defined as pebbles, but must cause sever injury. This makes it clear that the purpose of stoning is to inflict grievous pain on the victim in a process leading to his or her slow death.  Under Iranâs Islamic laws, prostitution and adultery are illegal and punishable by death. In July 1980, four women were simultaneously stoned to death in the city of Kerman. In October 4,1986 a 25 year-old woman named Nosrat was stoned to death in the city of Qom, She died afer an hour of continuous stoning. On April 17, 1986 a woman was stoned to death in the city of Qom. Prior to being stoned, she was whipped in public. In October 1989 in the city of Qom, a woman who being stoned managed to pull herself out of the hole, only to be forced back into it and stoned to death. On January 16, 1990, that a woman was stoned to death in the city of Bandar Anzali (northern Iran) January 2, 1990 two women were stoned in the city of lnagrood (northern Iran) On November 5, 1991 a woman charged with immoral relations was stoned in the city of Qom. In November 1, 1992 a woman named Fatima Bani was stoned to death in Isfahan. In February 1, 1994 a woman named Mina Kolvat was stoned to death in Tehran for having immoral relations with her cousin. On August 10, 1994, in the city of Arak, a woman was sentenced to death by stoning. According to the ruling of the religious judge, her husband and two children were forced to attend the execution. The woman urged her husband to take the children away, but to no avail. A truck full of stones was brought in to be used during the stoning. In the middle of the stoning, although her eyes had been gouged out, the victim was able to escape from the ditch and started running away, but the regimeâs guards recaptured her and shot her to death.  On November 1994, a man and a woman were stoned in the city of Oroumieh on murder and adultery charges. Shahin Soltan-Moradi had murdered her husband with the help of her lover, Mohammad Ali Hemmati On July 14, 1995, Amnesty International reported that two women by the names of Saba Abdali, and Zeinab Heidary were faced with stoning in the city of Ilam Gharbs. On 11 August 1997, Zoleykhah Kadkhode was publicly stoned and subsequently confirmed dead. She revived at the morgue, however and was taken to hospital where her condition is said to be improving. On October 26,1997, six individuals were stoned in Sari, the provincial capital of Mazandaran. The names of the victims were given as Fatemeh Danesh, Masoumeh Eini, Marzieh Fallah, Ali Mokhtarpour, Parviz Hasanzadeh and Kheirollah Javanmard. On July 13,1997, changiz Rahimi was sentenced to death, stoning and payment of fine for committing murder and adultery. Since Mohammad Khatami (the so called ãmoderate Presidentä) and his ãCabinetä took office, since now more than 10 women were stoned to death with charge of adultery.  Not only Khatami did not oppose the above stoning, but also He and the member of his cabinet continue to support this savage act.