Baha'ism

Societal Law

Criminal Law

Thieves are punished by exile and (?) imprisonment with a mark being placed on the forehand after the third offence.91 Penalties for wounding or striking a person are variable depending on the severity of the crime, the specifics being left up to a future House of Justice.92 Arsonists should be burned to death and murderers receive the death penalty, however it is permissible for their sentences to be transmuted to life imprisonment.93 Manslaughter carries the penalty of a financial payment of one hundred mithqals of gold to the family of the deceased.

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References

91Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 35.

92Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 39.

93Bahá’u’lláh, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 41.

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