So you both try to explain the age of the individual being stoned. The thing I personally take issue with is not the age of the person, but the reasons for putting the person to death.
Moses gets away with murdering an egyptian. A man gets killed for picking up sticks on the sabbath. The children of parents (no age specified, so we're talking age 0 and up) get stoned for bad behavior.
I know that saying these people may be adults seems to soften the blow, but you're just snowballing the whole thing and ignoring the bigger issues at hand.
Moses gets away with murdering an egyptian. A man gets killed for picking up sticks on the sabbath. The children of parents (no age specified, so we're talking age 0 and up) get stoned for bad behavior.
I know that saying these people may be adults seems to soften the blow, but you're just snowballing the whole thing and ignoring the bigger issues at hand.