Execution

This form of public execution by cannon may have been used prior to Abd al-Rahman's reign in Kabul but it became more common there during his reign. The practice of staged state killing for public display continued well into the twentieth century.

Copyright 2008 by author (from Le Petit Journal, 1913, page 380. Author's copy of 1913 original).

This form of public execution by cannon may have been used prior to Abd al-Rahman's reign in Kabul but it became more common there during his reign. The practice of staged state killing for public display continued well into the twentieth century.