The human rights organization Amnesty International on Friday called on the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan to stop carrying out executions and abolish the death penalty. “We oppose all executions as a violation of the right to life. The Taliban has been repeatedly carrying them out publicly which is a gross affront to human dignity as well as a violation of international laws and standards and cannot be tolerated,” the organization stated in a press release. “Carrying out executions in public adds to the inherent cruelty of the death penalty and can only have a dehumanizing effect on the victim…