Shabbir Ahmed in his QXP, which is not a literal translation, offers this explanation

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O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! The Law of Just Recompense (Qisaas) has been prescribed for you in dealing with murder. If a free person has committed murder, that free person will face the Law. If a servant has committed murder, that servant will face the Law. And if a woman has committed murder, that woman will face the Law. If the victim?s kin pardons the guilty, the murderer must be appreciative and pay an equitable compensation to the kin in handsome gratitude. This pardon is a concession and Mercy from your Lord. Whoever, after this, trespasses this Law will have an awful doom in the Court of God.

Peace everyone,

I have come across a group called the Christian Churches of God and it appears that they accept the Koran as a commentary that supplements the Torah and the Gospel. I have found their articles to be of interest and thought that I would share them.

Introduction to the Commentary on the Koran (No. QI)
http//www.ccg.org/english/s/qi.html

Christ and the Koran (No. 163)
http//www.ccg.org/english/s/p163.html

Hebrew and Islamic Calendar Reconciled (No. 53)
http//www.ccg.org/english/s/p053.html