Taliban on Tuesday executed a man in public in the eastern province of Khost after he was convicted of murder, marking the latest use of capital punishment since they returned to power in 2021.
The Taliban-run supreme court said in a statement that the man, identified as Mangal, son of Talah Khan, was found guilty of killing a person named Abdul Rahman with a Kalashnikov rifle. According to the statement, the convicted man was originally from Sanjak village in Paktia’s Syed Karam district but had been living in the Khost districts of Ali Shir and Terezio.
