Taliban authorities publicly executed a man in western Afghanistan on Thursday, Oct 16, who had been convicted of two murders, the country’s Supreme Court said.
The man was executed in front of crowds at a sports stadium in Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis province, the Supreme Court said in a statement.
It was the 11 public execution since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, according to an AFP tally.
The man was shot three times by a relative of the victims in front of thousands of onlookers, witnesses told an AFP journalist in the city.
The man had been “sentenced to retaliatory punishment” for shooting a couple. “The murderer killed two people, a man and his wife, who was around eight months pregnant,” Matiullah Muttaqi, the information chief for Badghis province, told AFP.
The execution followed a review by three courts and final approval from Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, he said.
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