Given that the married fornicator's punishment is stoning, when is his punishment death by the sword?
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The prescribed punishment for the married fornicator is stoning with rocks until death. He is not to be punished by striking with a sword, as that is forbidden, for it would negate the obligatory punishment of exemplary stoning.
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