May 1
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES:
Alarm over requests for blood money
Lawyers and legal advocates are appalled by families who exploit the killing of
a relative to demand huge sums of blood money from the perpetrator's family.
Although blood money, or diyya, is set at Dh200,000, some
May 1
ALABAMA:
Alabama court upholds 4 death sentencesIncluding man who killed 3
Birmingham officers
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the death sentence of a man
convicted of killing 3 Birmingham police officers more than a decade ago.
The judges rejected the
