GHAZNI: A journalist present at the scene said that on Thursday, Taliban officials carried out the public execution of two individuals found guilty of murder in a football stadium in eastern Afghanistan.
Following the reading aloud of a death order signed by Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada by Supreme Court official Atiqullah Darwish, both individuals were executed in Ghazni City by several gunshots to the back.
Darwish declared, “These two people were found guilty of being guilty of murder.”
“The order has been signed following two years of trial in the nation’s courts.” Thousands of people came to watch the executions take place in the stadium.
When asked if they would like to provide the condemned a last-minute reprieve, the families of the victims of the guilty men—including women and children—refused in both instances.
Although family members were also offered the opportunity to perform the execution themselves, they declined, and security personnel executed both men. According to a Supreme Court announcement, the two people who were put to death were Said Jamal and Gul Khan. They were both found guilty of using knives to kill people in September 2017 and January 2022, respectively.
According to the statement, Akhundzada looked at their circumstances in “extraordinary detail.”In 2022, Akhundzada gave judges the order to completely apply all facets of Islamic law, including the “eye for an eye” penalties known as “qisas.”
Between 1996 and 2001, while the Taliban ruled in their initial form, public executions were frequent. It is thought that the two executions on Thursday represent the third and fourth executions carried out since the Taliban government took back control. The initial pair had likewise been found guilty of homicide.
On the other hand, regular public floggings for theft, adultery, and alcohol use have also occurred.
The last known execution occurred in June 2023, when a murderer with a death sentence was shot and killed in front of some 2,000 people on the grounds of a mosque in the province of Laghman.
SOURCE: DAWN NEWS
