9 The Libyan Penal Code was dwelt on making human life the most cherished of these rights; therefore a highly critical penal legislation was enacted based on Islamic Shari'aa and related Human Rights Charters endorsed by the Libyan community. Interest in the right to life went so far as to prohibit pre-natal murder of fetus in his mother's womb and during neonatal period and until his death. Further, the Libyan Law declined to sanction the so-called euthanasia for reasons of having mercy on hopelessly ill persons to end their sufferings. This comes in affirmation of the right to live as sacred. The 1988 Great Green Charter of Human Rights in the Era of Masses, in turn, had promoted the right to life, citing in its Article 8 that the sons of the mass society "revere and maintain human life". It rather envisaged rudimentary limitations for death penalty by stating "that execution is exclusively for the one whose life inflicts injury or induces wrongdoing, being the same determinants quoted in the Holy Qoran, as well as in the Freedom Promotion Law no 20/1991. This position that sanctions capital punishment in specific cases and in accordance with the Law (as cited in the Penal Code and Criminal Procedure Law) is finely tuned with the International Law on Human Rights which has not, as some may believe, abolished it altogether but rather mandated that it should not involve arbitrary verdicts or be judged as beyond the scope of the law (Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights for 1966). The Libyan stance is in full harmony with the prerequisites stated in Article 4 of the 1981 African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights regarding the right to life. The Libyan Law approves death sentence as penalty for committing particular types of murder crimes, notably murder with premeditation, or those grossly or brutally perpetrated, or still crimes targeting large numbers of people. Other murder crimes such as manslaughter or those committed without premeditation or in protection of honor or money, are not, according to Libyan Law, punishable by execution; lighter