The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to be carried out in the past five days.
The execution took place in heavy snowfall in the city of Shibirghan, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, where the brother of the murdered man shot the convict five times with a rifle, according to an eyewitness . Security around the stadium was tight, said the witness, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
It was also the fifth public execution since the Taliban seized power of Afghanistan in August 2021 as the U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of their withdrawal from the country after two decades of war.
I have no love for religious fascism, but America had 42 state executions in a similar timeframe (2022-2023) also for crimes like murder, but I doubt the coverage was the same.
Lol right, the US does it more clinically with injections and gasses. Much better, historically speaking.
The suffering of an individual is not the same as a public execution in a stadium, nor is the message the same.
I feel like public executions are a whole lotta worse than regular executions
Yeah, what about the US and their stadium packed, public executions as a form of spectacle, it’s just barbaric. The US is well on the way to also execute people as part of the Superbowl half time show. The sick bastards.
Paint the picture however you please, a state sanctioned murder is still a state sanctioned murder regardless of how many people witness it.
I’m against capital punishment. But the dirty ‘what about’, ‘false equivalency’ just takes attention awaily from the original article and subject. Maybe think about that.
The subject is that the taliban organized
- A public execution
- where the victim has/gets to shoot the purpetrators
- in a crowded stadium.
If you want to rail against US capital punishment go do that, start threads, but not everything needs to be about the US.
