When getting stoned can kill you

Somalia - A man in in the port town of Merka, Somalia, was stoned to death for adultery. 300 people watched on as 33 year-old Abas Hussein Abdirahman was executed by the al-Shabab Islamist group. The man's pregnant girlfriend has been spared until she gives birth. This is the third execution by stoning this year. Those incidents included two men accused of spying and a 13 year-old girl, killed for being raped. Somalia's new President, President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has condemned the group for spoiling the image of Islam by killing people and harassing women. "Their actions have nothing to do with Islam," the President said.