The victim can ask for blood money instead - $270,000 in this case. I'm surprised there hasn't been a kickstarter about it.
What's fucking disgraceful is that our government (as in Britain's - dunno about the US) sells weapons to these people. The foreign office is making a fuss about it, but what they should be saying is "carry on with this nonsense, and we'll stop selling you guns and leave you to Iran to deal with".
I know several people who have visited and/or lived in Saudi (some Muslim, some not), and they all report the same thing - in this case, it IS as a bad as the headlines make out, and often worse.