On this date in 2000, according to the New York Times,
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban religious rulers stoned a mother of seven to death in northern Afghanistan today after she was found guilty of committing adultery, the Taliban radio said.
The last execution of a woman in Taliban territory was in November, when a woman was shot three times by a Taliban soldier after she was found guilty of killing her abusive husband with an ax.
The stoning today was carried out at a sports stadium in Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan before several thousand spectators.
On this day..
- 1919: Gustav Landauer, anarchist intellectual
- 1230: William de Braose, bold paramour
- Unspecified Year: Vilem, the Forest King
- 1821: Tommy Jemmy executes Kauquatau
- 1612: The slave rebels of Mexico City
- 1910: Mathias Muff, reproached by 15 orphans
- 1923: Florence Lassandro, unwilling feminist
- 1883: Heinrich "Henry" Furhmann, oldest hanged in Montana
- 1942: José Abad Santos, Chief Justice
- 1960: Caryl Chessman
- 1450: William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk
- Unspecified Year: Faust's Gretchen