Ibrahim Al-Kohaji , the father of a Saudi student murdered in Denver in 2001...

Ibrahim Al-Kohaji , the father of a Saudi student murdered in Denver in 2001, forgave two of his son's killers, sparing them from a sentence of "death by sword". Al-Kohaji was said to have pardoned the killers, seeking nothing but reward from "almighty Allah". A third man, Naif Al-Yousif, was also convicted in the slaying of 22-year-old Abdulaziz Al-Kohaji and was serving a life prison term in Colorado. 
"I'm very surprised," said Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter. "Quite frankly, (the Saudi) system is one that is literally and figuratively foreign to us."
At the time of the slaying, Abdulaziz Al-Kohaji, whose father was an Arab oilman, and his three friends were roommates and attended the Community College of Denver. On January 10, 2001, Abdulaziz Al-Kohaji was taped to a chair and strangled after being forced to give his friends access to his bank accounts. It took Denver police weeks to find his body in a landfill near Erie. Two of the murderers, Mishal Al-Swaidi and Tariq Al-Dossary, fled to Saudi Arabia, where they were sentenced to die by the sword. Al-Yousif was arrested here before he could flee.
At the time, Saudi officials asked that he be returned to Saudi Arabia to stand trial. But after an Islamic expert warned Ritter that Saudi death sentences could be overturned if the victim's family issues a pardon, Denver prosecutors opted not to turn Al-Yousif over to the Saudi police. What was to happen next to Al-Swaidi and Al-Dossary wasn’t clear. Ritter said if they were fully pardoned, meaning that they won't face a prison term for the murder, "we would not view that as a just result."