Re: What is your argument against secularism?
stoning, beheading and all such ways of executions were formed, because of the lack of tools like lethal injection of guns. A religious govt can do ijemah and come up with another form of punishment.
another thing is …
I think, and I might be wrong, that because adultery is considered a crime against society, its the society that needs to take part in execution, hence this collective method of punishment.
also, someone asked this question to Mufti Mehmood (a great scholar and father of Fazlur Rehman) and he said that in reality, stoning (because its a slow death) gives the accused a chance, to deny the charges in the middle of the punishment, and its the responsibility of Qazi to halt the stoning right away (keep in mind that in Prophet’s days, most of the stoning took place out of self-confessions of the adulterer). An instant way of killing the accused would not give him/her that chance.