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To: lurqer who wrote (40657)	3/28/2004 9:18:52 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

Killer forgiven seconds from death RIYADH (Reuters) - A convicted Saudi murderer escaped death by seconds when he was forgiven by his victim's father as he knelt down before the executioner's sword, a Saudi newspaper has reported. Okaz daily said 21-year-old Abdul-Karim al-Ghoraid, who killed a friend in a dispute five years ago, was moments away from being beheaded in a public square in Saudi Arabia's northern town of Tabuk on Friday. "I knelt and lowered my head, praying to God that he would forgive me and grant that my head be cut with the first blow of the sword," Ghoraid told the newspaper's Sunday edition. Suddenly the victim's father shouted out from the crowd: "I forgive you", the paper said, which meant Ghoraid could walk free. People started dancing and praising God, Okaz said. Saudi Arabia, which implements strict Islamic sharia law, executes convicted murderers, rapists and drug traffickers -- usually in a public beheading by sword. Under Islamic law, relatives of a murder victim can accept "blood money" instead of the execution of the offender. In December, a convicted killer in Saudi Arabia's southern tribal border region was spared execution in return for five million riyals. But the newspaper said Ayad bin Mohammad al-Sabr waived his right to the compensation for his son's death.