UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: BLOOD MONEY SAVES MAN FROM GALLOWS

an man who murdered his wife in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, had his death sentence commuted to five years in prison after the victim’s relatives accepted bloody money and pardoned him. The unnamed defendant told court he stabbed his wife seven times at their house in Musaffah after a heated argument during which she insulted him. The defendant’s father accepted diya (blood money) and pardoned him.