Dubai: Two murderers were spared execution yesterday when a court commuted their death sentence to 15 years in jail for premeditatedly murdering a man and burning his body.
The Dubai Appeal Court overturned the initial death sentence and jailed the Indian defendants, a 37-year-old driver and a 27-year-old supervisor, for committing a premeditated murder associated with another crime.
"The court has dismissed the public prosecution's appeal and accepted that of the defendants.
"The two accused obtained a written waiver from the blood parents. They handed a copy to the court. Mainly that was why the panel of judges treated the defendants with leniency and reduced the capital punishment to a 15-year imprisonment," Presiding Judge Al Sharif told Gulf News yesterday.
Source: GulfNews.com, Feb. 6, 2012
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