When one of his children died,a young man in a small East African village asked his relative, an old woman,to help prepare the funeral. She refused and said that she used magic to make the child die.The old woman told the frightened man that he would die before night came.The man got an axe, entered the old woman's house,and killed her.The police said that the young man must die for breaking the law. A judge agreed, that although the young man believed the old woman would kill him with magic, the law did not allow him to kill her. But another judge decided differently. The law taught people not to believe in magic, he said, but the young man should not die for his ignorance. The young man should only stay in jail a few years. The police and teachers must try to fight against ignorance like this. The country should have a new now to forbid frightening people with magic. But because the judges did not agree, they could not change the law. The asked the ruler of the country for clemency.