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Ignoring criticism from multiple human-rights organizations including the United Nations, the Taliban, which took control of Afghanistan when Joe Biden abruptly ordered American soldiers to leave, has continued its campaign of public executions.
The latest was Monday when a man convicted of murder was shot and killed before an audience at a sports stadium in Afghanistan.
The other impacts of Biden's decision to flee have been documented over and over. Hundreds of Americans left behind in the hands of the terrorist Taliban, thousands of Afghanis who had worked for America in the same position. Multiple fatalities. Tens of billions of dollars worth of American war machinery left behind for the Taliban.
Now Just the News reports about Monday's execution that the brother of the murdered man shot the convict five times with a rifle.
The execution was in a stadium in Sheberghan, the capital of the nation's Jawzjan province.
"Monday's execution is the third death sentence to be carried out over the past five days, and the fifth public execution since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021. On Thursday, two men who were convicted of stabbing people to death were executed by gunshot in a stadium by relatives of the victims," the report said.
The U.N. has issued strong condemnation of the Taliban's public executions, and initially, when it took over the country following Biden's departure, leaders had promised to rule "more moderately."
A report from Voice of America confirmed the Taliban's actions were in defiance of "international calls to stop the 'inhuman' punishments."
It reported the convict was found guilty of stabbing to death another man in 2022.
A government statement said the convict was tried in three Islamic courts before the sentence was carried out, in line with the religious law of Islam.
The most recent public executions had taken place only days ago, in a football stadium in Ghazni, where two men "convicted of murder in separate cases" were killed.
"We oppose all executions as a violation of the right to life," Amnesty International said after that sentence. "It’s high time that the international community and the U.N. up the pressure on the blatant human rights violations by the Taliban and help ensure that international safeguards are respected in Afghanistan."
Other Taliban punishments, for lesser offenses, have included public floggings.
