The November 1999 public execution of Zarmeena, an Afghan woman convicted of murdering her husband while he was asleep, at the Ghazi stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan. After a month of Taliban control in Afghanistan, the head of Afghan prisons remarked that the Taliban will privately resume executions and the amputation of hands for criminals.

First published in the September 28, 2021, 4:56 p.m. edition

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