A convicted murderer was publicly executed at a stadium in eastern Afghanistan, witnesses told AFP on Tuesday, an act condemned as “inhumane” by UN human rights officials. The Supreme Court identified ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, putting to death a man who the country’s Supreme Court said ...

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Afghanistan’s Taliban made a 13-year-old carry out a public execution in front of thousands of onlookers, shooting a man who had killed more than a dozen members of the boy’s family. An estimated ...

Executions in the U.S. nearly doubled in 2025 over the previous year as Florida executed more prisoners in a 12-month span than ever before, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. The ...