Ahmed Farraj and Hanni Farraj, two local Arabs, have been sentenced to death by the High Court of the Lebanon on a charge of the murder some two months ago of Abraham Messa, a Jewish peddler in the village of Aley, in the mountains of Lebanon. They murdered the peddler for the purpose of robbing his pack.
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