Hey, probably about half of the IDF after finishing their military obligation go over to India to get stoned.

BS"D

My thought is that no human being has the authority to kill another in this age for adultery as there exists no human body which is just and compassionate according to Torah standards on the Earth at this time.

And as for the Karaite's alleged desire to implement such a brutal and barbaric punishment, this may be an exemplary reason why they are nearly extinct as a people. 

Mar 29, 2012 -- 5:45PM, Shusha wrote:

Mar 29, 2012 -- 5:24PM, ffb wrote:

according to my limited understanding of Karaite Judaism, if there was the proper legal system and the truth could be told through the karaitic version of drisha vchakira, then stoning would be used. The karaite system is not without an interpretive framework, but without a unifiede and codified one with an origin myth sourced at sinai.

ffb,

Yes, this is my understanding as well.  The question would then be whether the requirement for witnesses and a legal undertaking of some sort can be interpreted directly from the Tanach or does it come from another source?  Thoughts?

the torah reads simply that one must investigate -- the written text sets no standard for what that investigation is so I would assume that it is up to the local sage to set the boundaries for the textual requirement. This would (much like the laws of slaughter and kashrut) become a community standard, unapplicable to any other community. it would also beg the quesiton of process -- how does the sage set the expectations or from where does he develop the interpretive groundrules or material upon which he expands the meaning of the written text.