Radical Islamists in northern Mali executed one man, accused of murder, and the execution was watched by about 600 people in the city of Timbuktu.
That public execution is just one in a series of steps by Islamists who interpret and apply Islamic Sharia law in their own way, the AP agency reported.
Before that, Islamists stoned a couple to death for adultery and maimed eight people.
The family of the executed man, a Tuareg who was a member of a separatist rebel group, offered compensation to the victim's family but they did not accept it.
A resident of the city of Timbuktu said that the condemned man was shot in the back, but that he died only a few hours later.
Islamists also whipped four people yesterday in the town of Douenza for drinking beer.
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