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Taliban execute two murderers by machine-gunning them through the spine in front of thousands of spectators at football stadium
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Taliban authorities publicly executed two men convicted of murder today by machine-gunning them through the back in front of a crowd of spectators.Both men were executed by multiple gunshots to the back in Ghazni city after Supreme Court official Atiqullah Darwish read aloud a death warrant signed by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada. 'These two people were convicted of the crime of murder... after two years of trial in the courts of the country, the order has been signed,' Darwish said. Thousands of men gathered in the stadium to witness the execution. Families of the convicted men's victims were present and were asked if they wanted to grant the condemned a last-minute reprieve but they declined. Public executions were common during the Taliban's first rule from 1996 to 2001. Thursday's executions are believed to be the third and fourth death penalties meted out since the Taliban authorities returned to power. The first two had also been convicted of murder. There have been regular public floggings for other crimes, however, including theft, adultery and alcohol consumption. The previous execution was carried out in June 2023, when a convicted murderer was shot dead in the grounds of a mosque in Laghman province in front of some 2,000 people. Many governments, international organisations and aid agencies cut off or severely scaled back their funding for Afghanistan in response - causing a serious knock to the already struggling economy. The Taliban government has also barred girls and women from high schools and universities, banned them from parks, funfairs and gyms, and ordered them to cover up in public. Posted by: Skidmark 2024-02-22 |
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