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Saudis Face Soaring Blood-Money Sums

MECCA, Saudi Arabia -- Badr al-Hasnani was 18 when he got into a fight with a soccer rival and fatally stabbed him. He confessed and was sentenced to death by beheading, as prescribed by sharia, or Islamic law.
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By Faiza Saleh Ambah

 
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