根据《伊朗法典》，妇女一生的价值等于男人的一半，这通常会导致怪异的法律判断，从而有效地惩罚受害者。在这种情况下，法官裁定，这两个男人的“血钱”比被谋杀的九岁女孩的生活还要多，他要求她的家人提出数千美元来资助他们的处决。
(Under the Iranian code, the worth of a woman's life equals half of a man's, a point that often leads to grotesque legal judgments that effectively punish the victims. In this instance, the judge ruled that the 'blood money' for the two men was worth more than the life of the murdered nine-year-old girl, and he demanded that her family come up with thousands of dollars to finance their executions.)