As per the official statement from the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, the man, identified as Mangal, was sentenced to death for killing 13 members of a family. Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, on ...

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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 ...

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Around 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution, the largest crowd for a hanging in early American history. The crime? Sedition. Thomas Hickey, a member of George Washington’s personal guard, was ...

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A death row inmate endured a horrific botched execution when one of the electric chair's straps broke - engulfing him in flames and filling the air with the stench of "burning flesh". John Louis Evans ...

The man had been convicted of killing 13 members of a family, including children, and was executed by one of their relatives, according to police.