The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police.
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities carried out the public execution of a man on Tuesday convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including several children, earlier this year.
Tens of thousands of people attended the execution at a sports stadium in the eastern city of Khost, which the Supreme Court said was the eleventh since the Taliban seized power in 2021 in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US and NATO forces.
The execution was ordered after a death sentence was passed down by a court, an appeals court and the Supreme Court itself, before being approved by Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.
The man was shot to death by a relative of those he was convicted of having killed, according to Khost police.
He had been convicted along with others of entering a family home and shooting to death an extended family, including nine children and their mother.
The victims' relatives had been offered the option of reconciliation that would have spared the man's life, but instead requested the death penalty, the Supreme Court said.
Before the execution, United Nations' Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan Richard Bennett had called for it to be halted.
"Public executions are inhumane, a cruel and unusual punishment, and contrary to international law," he wrote in a post on X on Tuesday morning.
The United Nations has strongly criticised the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power and urged its rulers to stop such practices.
Bennett said in October that the use of the death penalty in Afghanistan was "especially alarming" because the Taliban-controlled justice system "lacks any semblance of independence or due process."
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law, which has included a return of public executions, as well as bans on Afghan women and girls from secondary school and university education and from most forms of employment.
You practice it gradually. It is like typing. You master it first then practice gives you speed. Start and get it right first. As you peel more, you maintain accuracy but grow in speed.
He explained that when some local vigilante groups carryout investigations in their area, they sometimes destroy their settlement and make away with their cows, Matawalle claims that such incidents push some groups into retaliatory actions, contributing to the cycle of violence.
Why go after civillians in schools if Vigilante are the aggressor? Why push for Oyel money amnesty? Oil thats hundred of kilometres away ooo. How did they afford guns, bikes, petrol and general supplies. Were the vigilantes the original aggressors?
Place the stats of mosques and churches rebuilt side by side.
Columns to feature should include - percentage of churches destroyed - percentage of mosques destroyed - percentage rebuilt for each - casualty incurred for each
Nigeria is a case. Refineries suffered for decades and are dead today. The excuse was that govt has no business being in business. Today that same govt want to be in business.
Since Keyamo na son of the soil and can run business, make dem task am with wahala to run the refinery for Niger Delta naaa.
Hmmm... The process to recover $321m is similar to the process of recovering $10,000. Why was a huge rate used for a large sum and almost complete job?
Another angle to this is that same formula is being employed by Alpha Beta in Lagos and other states so how do you fault Malami for using same formula that's unchallenged in Lagos state?
Image123: Mob justice is not the way forward. You can ask for expedited trials and consistent judgment/punishment. Not that one terrorist gets life sentence with governors visit, while some other terrorist is killed. All terrorists should be legitimately and constitutionally sent to their Maker for urgent meeting. i don't appreciate DSS spending tax payers money for years taking care of terrorists while innocent children have no education and health access.
hmmm. Injustice pushed to mob to seek justice. Kano has always rejected insecurity from bandits. The crime rate within Kano is enough.
They are well within their caliphate abi na emirate. Northern Nigeria n Southern Niger Republic are under sultan of sokoto so calm down. The islamic republic is taking shape in our eyes. Lol
larryUG: No, The Joke is actually on you. You have not seen the terms of the loan and you are not aware of it. If you are aware, you will know that the conditions for securing the money was tied to commitment from NNPC to deliver certain barrels of crude daily for certain period of time.
Why am i even having this conversation with you? Believe whatever you want. Honestly, how can a grown person believe that NNPC will insert a fictional Loan into the books just to siphon money? Believe it.
If your skull is not so thick, ask yourself why is there a separate parastatal for crude oil/petroleum and we do not borrow with gold still in the ground in Zamfara or Osun state to at least reduce the pressure in oil money. So as it stands, the ND oil is the repayment source of loans used to service insecurity and avoidable poverty in Zamfara n Kebbi while they waste allocation and pocket gold proceeds.
When insecurity was first used to incite largely muslim voters against GEJ, they saw a savvy move in the whole episode, now they are sacrificing one another for state politics. Very soon LGA politics will lead to LGA bound Terrorists. Maybe later, Emirate bound politics.
larryUG: Bros, This is a public forum and your submissions should be informed. Nigerian government took a loan with crude. So the NNPC is obliged to pay back the loan using crude oil. It is a well known fact. Coming publicly to say there is no Loan and it is a guise from NNPC to siphon funds is just BS and totally uninformed.
Jihadi police or actual state police. The wisdom they intend to run a state police with, have they generated and reasonable IGR towards self-sufficiency with that wisdom.
After securing enough collateral damage to deter any aggression and subtle reassurance from the compromised APC. That's conditional bravery. If you want to see true bravery go southward.
The same forest bombs cannot penetrate, helicopters can land within and cars can navigate. The kind of thunda preparing to fire some sponsors of terror enh, it is eating bean with escavator.
Kukutente23: This is terrible May God have mercy on Nigeria Politicians have really sold out this country in their desperate bid for power
to know how bad it has become, i saw the news early on and didn't believe it can be true. I assumed it was just content hustlers looking for views. Jesus of Nazareth.