BBC: Fifteen people in Afghanistan have been put to death for crimes including murder, government officials say.
They say that the firing squad deaths are the second confirmed executions since the fall of the Taleban in 2001.
Officials say that the 15 were shot at Afghanistan's largest prison Pul-e-Charkhi. The last such executions were in April 2004.
Pul-e-Charkhi is a huge prison complex built in the 1970s on the outskirts of the Afghan capital, Kabul.
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Correspondents say the vast and run-down jail is notorious for the disappearance and torture of thousands of Afghans during the country's communist era.
Officials say that the executions took place on Sunday evening according to Afghan law, which stipulates that condemned prisoners should be shot. Fifteen executed in Afghanistan (more)
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