The Hindu : Front Page : `No place for mercy killing in Qatar'

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Monday, Sep 27, 2004

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`No place for mercy killing in Qatar'

DUBAI, SEPT. 26. A 17-year-old girl from Kerala, accused of killing her mother in Qatar five months ago, is likely to escape death penalty but will face life imprisonment if found guilty by the Shariah court.

The death sentence is given only in cases where the killer is found to have mutilated the body to hide recognition, Doha's Peninsula newspaper quoted a prominent Qatari lawyer as saying about the reported mercy killing of the terminally ill mother.

Lawyer Mohsen Thiyab Al Suwaidi said the Shariah court would treat the girl as an adult as she had crossed the age of 16 and was not a minor any more but it did not recognise mercy killing.

Asked how the court was likely to treat the case if her mother, who by most accounts was terminally ill and sought her daughter's help to end her life, the lawyer said there was no place for mercy killing in Islamic law. — UNI

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