A senior Afghan official has pardoned a man sentenced to death for murdering the politician's father, a court said Sunday, days after Taliban authorities carried out the first public execution since the Islamists seized power.
Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada last month ordered judges to fully enforce aspects of Islamic law including public executions, stonings and floggings, and the amputation of limbs from thieves.
The country's sharia courts had found Abdul Qayyum guilty of murder and ordered his execution as an"eye for an eye" punishment under the hardline justice system."The family of the murderer requested me to pardon him. Today, I'm letting go of the qisas and I forgive him," the court statement quoted the official as saying.
The execution took place on December 7 in the western province of Farah and was carried out by the victim's father who shot the condemned man three times with a Kalashnikov rifle.Wahid Shah, a local shopkeeper who attended the execution, 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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