Capital punishment in Afghanistan

Notable executions

• April 2004 – Abdullah Shah was executed by shooting inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison outside Kabul.
• October 2007 – Fifteen prisoners were executed by shooting inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison, including Reza Khan.
• June 2011 – Two mass killers were executed by hanging in Pul-e-Charkhi prison. One of the killers was Zar Ajam, a 17-year-old from Waziristan, Pakistan, who had randomly shot dead 40 people inside a branch of New Kabul Bank in Jalalabad.
• November 2012 – Fourteen prisoners were hanged inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison.
• October 2014 – Five men were executed by hanging inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison. The men were accused of robbery and gang rapes.
• May 2016 – Six men were executed by hanging inside Pul-e-Charkhi prison on charges of terrorism.
• December 2022 – One man who had confessed to murder was executed in public at a crowded sports stadium in Farah Province. This is the first instance of public execution since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
• June 2023 – A man found guilty of murdering five people was sentenced to death and executed with an assault rifle by the son of one of his victims. The execution took place outside a mosque.
• February 2024 – Two men were convicted for separate murders were shot by the relatives of their victims and executed while thousands watched at stadium in Ghazni.
• February 2024 – A man convicted of murder was shot five times by the brother of the murdered man in a sports stadium in northern Afghanistan. This was the third death sentence of this nature to be carried out in a five-day span.