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Execution By Taliban: Crushed Under Wall [1]

['The Associated Press']

Date: 1999-01-16  

Thousands of people watched today as a Taliban tank knocked over a 15-foot brick wall, sending it crashing down on a 60-year-old man sentenced to death for sexually attacking a boy.

Also today, the hands and feet of a number of thieves were amputated at another location, the main stadium of Afghanistan's beleaguered capital, Kabul.

The Taliban executed Shuma Khan near a damaged building where a wall was still standing. He had been convicted of sodomy for the attack on the boy, 12, in a hotel in Maidan Shahr, about 18 miles outside Kabul.

The man was found dead when the rubble was cleared away a half hour later.

The Taliban, who have imposed their brand of harsh Islamic law on the 90 percent of Afghanistan ruled by the Taliban, say homosexuality is a capital offense and punishable by the wall-toppling method. If the convicted person survives, the sentence is commuted, according to Taliban law. Several people have been sentenced to death by this means. Two have survived.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/16/world/execution-by-taliban-crushed-under-wall.html

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