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Capital Madness
The slow demise of capital punishment

by By TED RALL

December 30, 2004

One of the most famous Taliban executions was one they didn't carry out. The accused, convicted by a Sharia court of raping and murdering a young woman, sat in the mud near the goalpost of a soccer stadium in Kabul, his arms tightly bound to a chair.