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.
Probably because the US didn’t do them at a stadium…
That is a fine hair you are splitting there…
I feel like public executions are a whole lotta worse than regular executions
Only to the people justifying state murder. To the person involved, they are still dead either way,
To me the Saudi.Taliban methods are more honest, though just as mortally reprehensible as the USA’s. The Saudi’s are proud that they murder their citizens and are not afraid to show it.
This has the same energy as saying all forms of execution are just as bad because the person is dead in the end anyway. Lol
Yes. That was my point.
You find it funny.
I find it sad that a nation that claims life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as founding tenets defends the death penalty.
Of course I find it funny. Normally people recognize that even bad things can have levels of how bad they are.
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.
Proponents of the US death penalty claim it is for deterrence, so I’m not really seeing a difference. Pretty sure you can also go witness a US execution if you’re so inclined.
Centrists: It’s the same thing!1!!
Not exactly
Why is this comment upvoted so much?
Response from a country that does not ahve the death penalty.
Well, they are…
It is not how the state does it that is the problem but that the state does it.
There is no way to humanely kill someone who does not want to die.