In the United States, capital punishment consists of electric chairs, lethal injections, and in extremely rare situations, death by firing squad. But in some pockets of Somalia they keep it a little more old school, biblical (Koranic?) even. They stone people to death. According to the AFP, a man convicted of raping and murdering a teenage woman was executed by Islamic fundamentalists using the ancient method in a town 55 miles outside of Mogadishu:
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There’s no denying that Somalia is a dangerous place. It conjures up images of warlords riding around in pickup trucks with AK-47s and Black Hawk Down. And now that the Somali pirates have caught the world’s attention, the country is clearly one of the edgiest in the world. It’s also where rapper K’Naaan was born and bred. To him, American emcees have no credibility, cause no matter how destitute, cities in the United States got nothing on war torn Mogadishu, they’re more entertaining than anything else:
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