A jurisprudential study of the payment of blood money differential after the intentional murder of a woman

According to Imamite Fiqh, if a man intentionally kills a woman, the legal guardian of the woman can pay half of the blood money of the man and ask for a death sentence for him. With regard to the fact that blood money is compromisable and needs the agreement of the murder, sometimes this verdict becomes practically problematic because sometimes the guardian may not be able to afford to pay the blood money differentials and/or the murderer is not willing to compromise. As a result, the woman's murder remains unretaliated. There are a number of solutions to this problem including considering an equal amount of blood money for men and women, paying the women's blood money by government [Beyt al-Mal], not asking for the murderer's consent. Critically studying the first two solutions, this paper supports the third one.