A useful jog to the memory:

A pregnant widow was flogged and killed in public after being convicted of adultery by the Taliban in a grim reminder of the militant group's six-year rule of Afghanistan. The woman, named as Bibi Sanubar, was given more than 200 lashes before being shot in the head three times, police said...

(Hat tip: Jeff Weintraub)

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