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Rajm can also inflicted when the requisite four witnesses are not present i.e. when a person confesses himself and sticks by his/her confession. There have been wonderful souls who have given themselves completely and submitted to the punishment.

Rajm is the last resort option in Islam for adultery. The whole ethos of Islam, in its divinely ordained system of Hijaab, is to prevent as much as possible from such incidents occurring.