though, in intentional murder, blood-money which should be received depends upon agreement between him and heirs of the murdered person (in other words, it is reconciliatory), according to abi basir’s hadith, if a murderer escapes and cannot be found, blood-money should be taken from his properties and, if this is not possible, in the next stage from his relatives, and finally from public treas...

In the early morning of March 25, 2006, 28-year-old Kyle Huff shot eight young men and women, six of them fatally, at a rave after-party on East Republican Street in the Capitol Hill section of Seattle. The gunman, a transplant fromMontana, then committed suicide just as the police arrived on the scene. Because of the perpetrator’s suicide, there was no need for a detailed investigation leading...

Ethical, philosophical and religious values are central to the continuing controversy over capital punishment. Nevertheless, factual evidence can and should inform policy making. The evidence for capital punishment as an uniquely effective deterrent to murder is especially important, since deterrence is the only major pragmatic argument on the pro-death penalty side.1 The purpose of this paper ...

The best chance for a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appeared to arrive in the early 1990s. A combination of deft international diplomacy and political evolution in the two sides’ leadership led in 1993 to a secretly negotiated agreement, the Oslo accord, between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization that established a partially autonomous transitional mechanism known a...