Taliban authorities executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents took over Afghanistan last year.
A member of the Taliban security forces stands guard at a checkpoint along a street in Jalalabad, December 6, 2022. — Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, the first public execution since the former insurgents
last year, a spokesman said. The announcement underscored the intentions by Afghanistan's new rulers to continue hardline policies implemented since they took over the country in August 2021 and to stick to their strict interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia.
Mujahid said Tajmir was executed by the father of the victim, who shot him three times with a rifle. CBS News' Ahmad Mukhtar said Mujahid also posted a voice message, said to be from the victim's mother, on social media, in which the woman can be heard voicing her satisfaction with justice having been served, and the hope that it would prevent future murders.
Wahid Shah, a local shopkeeper who attended the execution on Wednesday, told CBS News' Sami Yousafzai in a telephone interview that"it was terrifying" and he"left quickly and could not bear to see more."
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