Afghan law does not prohibit the execution of an individual...

Afghan law does not prohibit the execution of an individual who was under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed. While executions took place in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover (September 1996), the army of former Islamic seminarians has added several new twists. For example, it has curtailed a defendant's right to appeal rulings and gives the families of murder victims the option of carrying out a court-imposed death sentence or granting mercy. Taliban punishments are generally carried out in public.