Is a free person subject to retaliation (Qisas) if they kill a person who is half-slave and half-free?

General Chapter

Al-Mughni

Book of Wounds

Book 47 · Issue 3 · Bab 1

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If a free person kills an individual who is half-slave and half-free, the free person is not put to death in retaliation because the slave portion of the deceased does not warrant the killing of a free person.