Taliban urge world to block Afghan executions

Is this a joke? The taliban, who throw acid in girls' faces, stone women to death, have 13 year olds chop the heads off people are calling the world to halt Afghan executions?

I'm not against capital punishment but I am opposed to capital punishment metted out by shariah law. Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban, notorious for summary public executions, urged the United Nations on Thursday to press the Afghan government to stop executing prisoners on death row, citing concern about fair trials.

Afghanistan resumed executions this week after a break of more than a year, with three Taliban sentenced for deadly attacks among nine people put to death in the past few days.

Those executions followed a public outcry over rising crime.

About 120 other people have been sentenced to death and their fate rests with President Hamid Karzai, who has to approve any execution order.

The United Nations and European Union have called on Karzai to halt the executions, citing concern about the standards of judicial fairness.