Showing posts with label gross injustice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gross injustice. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2011

Punishment


For the young Somalian woman who was convicted of adultery based on trumped up charges, and sentenced to death by a tribal court and later stoned to death in public.

They were right,
The puritans,
The faithful servants of the God.

Adultery was a crime,
To be swept from the face of the Earth,
At any cost.

A canard was sufficient evidence,
To pass death sentence,
On an adulteress,
In a country,
Where no smoke arose without fire,
And where the Law could be customized.

Truth, they maintained,
Needed little evidence to support it.

After all, it wasn`t too inhuman,
Only her face was mauled.

Even in the sultriest climes,
Stones would not melt,

Nor dissolve in the blood.