UAE: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING COUSIN OVER DH400

April 4, 2019:

A farm worker, who killed his cousin because the victim demanded that he pay back the Dh400 he owed, has been sentenced to death.
The Abu Dhabi Cassation Court upheld the rulings of the lower courts that found the Asian man guilty of premeditated murder.
Court documents showed that the man had a heated argument with his cousin over a Dh400 debt. The victim, who worked in another farm in the neighbourhood, was asking him to pay the money back. Both men worked as shepherds in a farm in Abu Dhabi.
The man challenged the sentence in Abu Dhabi's top court, but the earlier rulings have been maintained.
A death sentence is executed only after the approval of the UAE President.