The Taliban authorities on Thursday, October 16,2025, publicly executed a man in western Afghanistan who had been convicted of two murders.

The man was shot three times by a relative of the victims in front of thousands of onlookers  at a sports stadium in Qala-I-Naw, the capital of Badghis province The

According to an AFP tally, the execution brought to 11 the number of men publicly put to death since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

The man had been sentenced to retaliatory punishment for shooting a man and a woman after his case had been examined very precisely and repeatedly.

The families of the victims were offered amnesty and peace but they refused.