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.

  • anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    I have no love for religious fascism, but America had 42 state executions in a similar timeframe (2022-2023) also for crimes like murder, but I doubt the coverage was the same.

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          8 months ago

          I feel like public executions are a whole lotta worse than regular executions

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            a whole lotta worse than regular executions

            Only to the people justifying state murder. To the person involved, they are still dead either way,

            To me the Saudi.Taliban methods are more honest, though just as mortally reprehensible as the USA’s. The Saudi’s are proud that they murder their citizens and are not afraid to show it.

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              8 months ago

              This has the same energy as saying all forms of execution are just as bad because the person is dead in the end anyway. Lol

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                Yes. That was my point.

                You find it funny.

                I find it sad that a nation that claims life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as founding tenets defends the death penalty.

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                  8 months ago

                  Of course I find it funny. Normally people recognize that even bad things can have levels of how bad they are.

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        8 months ago

        Lol right, the US does it more clinically with injections and gasses. Much better, historically speaking.

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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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            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.

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      Yeah, what about the US and their stadium packed, public executions as a form of spectacle, it’s just barbaric. The US is well on the way to also execute people as part of the Superbowl half time show. The sick bastards.

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        Paint the picture however you please, a state sanctioned murder is still a state sanctioned murder regardless of how many people witness it.

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          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

          • A public execution
          • where the victim has/gets to shoot the purpetrators
          • in a crowded stadium.

          If you want to rail against US capital punishment go do that, start threads, but not everything needs to be about the US.

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            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.

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            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.

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              I bet if the victims had to pull the trigger, the US would get their number of state-sanctioned murders down to taliban levels.