On this date in 2008, the Taliban executed two women whom it claimed were running a prostitution ring for U.S. soldiers based in the city of Ghazni.
The Taliban invited a journalist who gives us a disarmingly placid picture of the two burka-clad women seemingly conversing even as armed men surrounding them in the nighttime gloom prepare to take their lives.
On this day..
- 1822: Gullah Jack
- 1391: Amerigot Marcel, cast down
- 1758: Not Florence Hensey, Seven Years' War spy
- 1995: Boris Dekanidze, the last in Lithuania
- 1936: Earl Gardner
- Themed Set: Meaghan Good (II)
- 2013: Zeng Chengjie, China's Bernie Madoff
- 1960: Manfred Smolka, East German border guard
- 1833: Frankie Silver, Morganton legend
- 2006: Rocky Barton, suicidal
- 1916: Cesare Battisti and Fabio Filzi
- 1537: Robert Aske, for the Pilgrimage of Grace
- 1726: William Fly, unrepentant pirate
- Themed Set: Embarrassed Executioners