Taliban hold public execution for 2 men, who are killed by gunfire in a stadium as thousands watch

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in the southeast of the country. Relatives of the victims of stabbings fired guns at the two convicted men while thousands of people watched. The Taliban’s Supreme Court had ruled that the two men were responsible for the stabbing deaths of two victims in separate attacks. A court statement identified the two convicted men though it was unclear who carried out the stabbings, they or others. People crowded outside the stadium in the Ali Lala area of the city of Ghazni to watch the executions on Thursday. Religious scholars pleaded with relatives of the victims to forgive the convicts but they refused.