A man sits under a sign with flag belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) along a street in the city of Mosul June 12, 2014.
IN PHOTO: A man sits under a sign with flag belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) along a street in the city of Mosul June 12, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer REUTERS/Stringer

From beheading to using a gun fired by a boy, the Islamic State (IS) showed a new method of killing people who go against Islamic beliefs - throwing people from buildings to their death.

The Telegraph reports that a gay man was given that punishment. It published a photo of the victim, while blindfolded and hands tied across his back, taken up the top of a building in the IS-controlled city of Mosul and shoved down to his death.

Below the edifice, there was a crowd watching the enforcement of a decision by the extremist group's Sharia court which found him guilty of being a "people of Lot" or sodomy.

Lot refers to a God-fearing person in the Old Testament of the Bible who lived in the cities of Sodom and Gomorra, which was destroyed by God and its people made into pillars of salt for practicing anal sex or sodomy.

The jihadist, who pushed the victim to his death, covered his face with a balaclava, a piece of black clothing.

It appears that gay man is not the first to be meted the sentence of being thrown from a high place for sodomy since photos of men being thrown from a roof by IS members first came out in December.

The rooftop-shoving punishment indicates the return to medieval forms of law in parts of Syria and Iraq controlled by the IS.

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Another punishment given to gay men is stoning. In November, two gay men were stoned to death in Raqqa, a Syrian city.

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