South Asian News Network

Two people were scheduled to be publicly executed in eastern Afghanistan, marking the third and fourth death sentences since the Taliban’s return to power. The Ghazni Province Department of Information and Culture declared that the death penalty is akin to ‘an eye for an eye’, but no information on the detainees or their crimes was provided. Public executions were widespread during the first Taliban government, which lasted from 1996 to 2001, but since August 2021, only two more people have been hanged for murder. The last death sentence was imposed in June 2023, when a convicted killer was shot in front of 2,000 people in Laghman province.