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 * Somali Woman Stoned to Death**

In Mogadishu, Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman, a judge for the militant group al-Shabab, says the woman was stoned to death for adultery and her boyfriend was given one hundred lashes for having an affair. She had had an affair with a 29-year-old unmarried man and gave birth to a still-born baby. The woman was killed on Tuesday afternoon in front of a crowd of nearly 200 people. Under al-Shabab's interpretation of Sharia law, anyone who has ever been married who has an affair may be found guilty of adultery and can be given a punishment of stoning by death.

__BBC News:__ [] __The Bellingham Herald:__ []

__Similarities:__ The titles of both articles were similar. The Bellingham Herald had "Somali woman stoned to death for adultery" and BBC News had "Somali woman stoned for adultery." Both articles also included that the stoning was "at least the fourth for adultery in Somalia over the last year" and it was thought to be the second time a woman was stoned to death for adultery by al-Shabab.

__Differences:__ One of the biggest differences between these two articles was that BBC News's was a lot longer than the Bellingham Herald's was. So BBC included more information. They told a little bit about the four others who were also stoned in the past year while the Bellingham Herald just wrote about the woman who was killed. BBC also put in that President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed was a moderate Islamist and wanted to implement Sharia, but al-Shabab said that his version of the Islamic law would be too light. BBC included two pictures, too, whereas the Bellingham Herald didn't put in any.

I think that it's cruel and wrong to stone people to death in from of others, even it that is the law in the country. The law should be changed because it's too severe. The woman and the others didn't kill anybody, so they shouldn't be killed. And what would happen to the children of the people who were stoned? I think that they should find some other forms of punishment that doesn't cause death.