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.

  • Potatofish@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The suffering of an individual is not the same as a public execution in a stadium, nor is the message the same.

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      8 months ago

      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.

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        8 months ago

        Having a random civilian shoot a criminal with thousands of spectators in a sports stadium.

        Executing a criminal with lethal injection to an audience of 12

        Centrists: It’s the same thing!1!!

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          Centrists: It’s the same thing!1!!

          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.