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Restorative Justice in Islam: Should Qisas Be Considered a Form of Restorative Justice?
The development of criminal punishments in the West is a subject of interest for scholars in various fields. One of the foundational ideas has been that the movement away from corporal punishment to other forms of punishment, such as imprisonment, has been an improvement. But, such ideas have not gone unquestioned.

An International call for Moratorium on corporal punishment, stoning and the death penalty in the Islamic World
Muslim majority societies and Muslims around the world are constantly confronted with the fundamental question of how to implement the penalties prescribed in the Islamic penal code.

Islam and the Death Penalty
William A. Schabas, 2000
Capital punishment is not practiced by a majority of the world's states. Anti-capital punishment domestic policies have led to an international law of human rights that emphatically prohibits cruel and inhuman punishment.
The Death Penalty in Traditional Islamic Law and as Interpreted in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria
by Elizabeth Peiffer
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Volume 11 | Issue 3 Article 9 2005

University of Wisconsin's Inside Islam

Tariq Ramadan on the Death Penalty
Tariq Ramadan, a prominent Muslim scholar, wrote a response titled “On the Death Penalty” where he argues that there should be a moratorium on the use of the death penalty for certain crimes like adultery and murder.

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Children and the experience of violence: Contrasting cultures of punishment in Northern Nigeria. Last, Murray. Africa (pre-2011) 70.3 (2000): 359-393.
Implementation of Islamic Criminal Law in Indonesia: Ta'zir punishment as a solution? Santoso, Topo. IIUM Law Journal 19.1 (2011): 123-148.
Islam, law, and political control in contemporary Iran. Tamadonfar, Mehran. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 40.2 (Jun 2001): 205-219.
The continuing debate on the death penalty: an exposition of international, Malaysian and the Shari'ah perspectives. Aziz, Shamrahayu A. IIUM Law Journal 23.1 (2015): 61-84.
Stoning for Adultery in Christianity and Islam and its Implementation in Contemporary Muslim Societies. Noor, Azman bin Mohd. Intellectual Discourse 18.1 (2010): 97-113.

Limitations on Religious Freedom in Islam: The Witness of the Qur'an and Prophetic Traditions
In the face of a global trend toward religious freedom which began in the seventeenth century, Islam seems to be the only major religion to maintain that conversion away from the religion - apostasy - must be punished with death. In a number of Muslim-majority countries such as Saudi Arabia, apostasy laws and the associated death penalty still prevail.
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ABC Religion and Ethics, May 2014

Capital punishment
Muslims believe that capital punishment is a most severe sentence but one that may be commanded by a court for crimes of suitable severity. While there may be more profound punishment at the ha

Islam: Governing Under Sharia
Sharia, or Islamic law, influences the legal code in most Muslim countries. A movement to allow sharia to govern personal status law, a set of regulations that pertain to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody, is even expanding into the West.
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Toni Johnson, and Mohammed Aly Sergie, 2014