Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Kabul (BNA) As many as 8 criminal individuals had been executed after they were proved to commit intentional murder, the secretariat of the administrative affairs office said Tuesday.
According to the Supreme Court resolution, based on the article 129 of the constitution, the eight were blamed of intentional murder of innocent people including women and children as President Karzai issued a decree to trail them and put them into execution, the office said.
The executed individuals had been included a man murdered his mother in-law along with two of her children, after tightening their throat using his shoe lace, according to the sources.
Another one was blamed of killing four French troops in Kapisa province, where the French troops had mostly been deployed against the government armed oppositions.
One of the executed men was accused of theft and murdering a woman inside her house, the sources said adding the decision had been taken based on the holy Islamic religion and tantamount to the constitution of the country.
The independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) also announced it respected the decision taken by the government of Afghanistan, to trail the culprits and punish them.
