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.
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
If you want to rail against US capital punishment go do that, start threads, but not everything needs to be about the US.
An American journalist wrote an article in English on an American publication that I see as hypocritical. This is the perfect place for that discussion.
But while it is, since it’s already are — the Taliban offer direct participatory justice. The entire community sees the wrong being made right and the aggrieved party carries out the righting.
In the US, the justice is outsourced. The execution in some dingy cellar with ridiculous drugs.
This leads to a simple conclusion. The Americans are the soy boy and Taliban are Chad.
I bet if the victims had to pull the trigger, the US would get their number of state-sanctioned murders down to taliban levels.