Jurisprudential Decree about «Burning People Alive as a Punishment» in Islamic Denominations

Many legal systems in the world, including the legal system of Islam has accepted Execution as a punishment. Some of the most important issues in this regard are the quality and instruments of execution and the rights of the person executed. Is it allowed to execute anyone who deserves to be executed through every quality and instrument? Specifically, is it allowed for them to be burnt in the fire? The importance and necessity of this issue is apparent, because recently some Islamic groups, in the name of Islam, are openly inciting to burn their enemies alive. This research was conducted using descriptive-analytical method and using library and documentary data collection method. The evidence of the “forbiddingness of burning people alive” and “critique of its licensing” and “the claimed exceptions from the prohibition of this action” have been evaluated. The results show that there is no valid reason to attribute burning a living man to Islam and the infallible Imams.