Given that the married fornicator's punishment is stoning, when is his punishment death by the sword?
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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