they did not care. They probably took him outside the city where the witnesses repeated their charges, threw him down an embankment (it was the witnesses’ privilege to do so), and cast great stones on him, followed by more stones from the crowd. Frederick Buechner describes it this way: Stoning somebody to death, even somebody as young and healthy as Stephen, is not easy. You do not get the job done with the first few rocks and broken bottles, and even after you get the man down, it is a long, hot