Eye-for-eye Sharia justice returns to Afghan courts

Ghazni, Afghanistan – Kneeling in entrance of a turbaned decide in a tiny room on the Ghazni Courtroom of Enchantment in japanese Afghanistan, an outdated man sentenced to dying for homicide pleads for his life.

The 75-year-old admits to having shot useless a relative — out of revenge, he says, due to rumors he had sexual relations along with his daughter-in-law.

Underneath eye-for-eye Sharia punishments, formally ordered by the Taliban’s supreme chief for the primary time in November, he faces public execution — with the sentence to be carried out by a relative of his sufferer.