Over a 100 waiting execution in Afghanistan

Why should any of this be a surprise? After all the highest law in Afghanistan, as stipulated by its constitution, is islamic law. Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - More than 100 convicted murderers, rapists and kidnappers are on death row in Afghanistan awaiting President Hamid Karzai to sign the orders for their execution, a senior judge said on Tuesday.[...]

Five people have been executed since Saturday after Karzai approved the sentences following repeated appeals from many ordinary Afghans to mete out the punishment as enshrined in the country's constitution and ordered by Islam.

"We have 125 people who have been sentenced by various courts to the death penalty and are to be executed after Karzai's approval," said a senior Supreme Court judge who declined to be named.