Under Emirati law, multiple crimes carry the death penalty, and the sole method of execution is firing squad.
[1][2][3][4] Current law allows the death penalty for treason, espionage, murder, successfully inciting the suicide of a mentally ill person, arson resulting in death, indecent assault resulting in death, nuclear waste disposal in the environment, apostasy, rape of a minor, perjury causing wrongful execution, aggravated robbery, terrorism, drug trafficking[4] and joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
She was charged with premeditated murder and sentenced to death by firing squad, and maintained that she killed him in self-defence after he tried to rape her.
Following a personal appeal of mercy from then-President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, her sentence was reduced and she was required to pay blood money instead, which was paid by a Filipino businessman.
[14][15] In June 2015, the Federal Supreme Court sentenced an Emirati terrorist, Alaa Bader al-Hashemi, to death for the murder of Ibolya Ryan and planting a "handmade bomb" in an Egyptian-American doctor's home in Abu Dhabi.