In a sports stadium in southern Kandahar, the boy shot the man, identified as Mohammed Hashim, four times with a rifle. Under the Taliban's strict interpretation of Islam, relatives of a victim carry out the death sentence. It's not clear how or when the boy's father was killed. Also in the stadium the Taliban ordered the right hand and left foot of a man amputated after he was found guilty of highway robbery.
Simple theft is punished with the amputation of the right hand.
But highway robbery is punished with the amputation of both the hand and the foot. The Taliban, who are largely Sunni Muslims and Pashtun, Afghanistan's majority ethnic group, adhere to a strict version of Islam. Thousands of people crowded a football ground to watch one of the victim's relatives execute the alleged murderer. A man convicted by a Taliban court of killing five members of a family was publicly executed in the Afghan city of Herat, the state-run Radio Shariat reported Saturday. Thousands of people thronged the city's sports stadium to watch the victims' heir execute Ghulam Ghaus on Friday.