ARTICLE IN SECULAR AFGHAN PAPER SAYS DEATH PENALTY A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

the Afghan independent secular daily newspaper Hasht-e Sobh said that "executions not only violate the right of a person to live, there are many other challenges to this as well. "It explained that people who are executed are part of a chain in which other people are also involved, usually connected to people in the government. It also said that the existing corruption in the justice and judicial sector is so obvious that even government officials concede it.
"We must bear in mind that the head of the independent commission against corruption and bribery once famously said that even the then chief prosecutor had a case." "There have been hundreds of cases of corruption by government officials, which the justice and judicial institutions have either ignored or have not had the power to pursue.
On other hand, money and power have also played a significant role to the extent that even some suspects of assassinations have been acquitted. Some judges are reported to have lost their lives for not compromising their conscience. Corruption has penetrated the institutions which are responsible for carrying out court orders."