What do you think of the fact the European Countries cannot extradite someone to the US if they face execution

Question

No EU country will extradite a suspect if they face the death penalty.

In theory if Osoma Bin Laden gave himself up in the UK, he could not be legally extradited to the US without a legally binding assurance that he will not face the death penalty.

Actually the UK may like the idea of sending Osoma to the US for execution, but legally they'd be obliged not to.

Also, I think the same law covers torture.

Answer 1

I think the death penalty is the easy way out for these monsters!!! they deserve to be put in solitary and suffer for the rest of their lives!

Answer 2

I understand that these governments often have laws associated to their bans on capital punishment which forbid them to send someone back to a country where they will be executed. They don't believe in this form of justice, and want to keep their hands clean. Exceptions have been made, it took years but the Canadians finally extradited serial killer Charles Ng.

It is unfortunate that there are some people with the resources and imagination to flee the United States to a non-extraditing country. I am a reluctant supporter of the death penalty. I hate that we have people in our society that are so dangerous that the only solution is to remove them permanently. I'd rather we kept the moral high ground, and sentenced these people to true life imprisonment in maximum security, locked down facilities. But there are times when execution isn't murder, it is pest control.

In my opinion, the major problem is that the US is not the only country with capital punishment. Our death row inmates spend years there while automatic appeals are filed, and every avenue is explored. In some countries the time between conviction, sentencing and execution is measured in days instead of years. The sentence is imposed for "crimes' that US citizens are guaranteed as rights e.g. freedom of relegion; freedom of association.

The cynical might tell you that we don't have to impose the death penalty in many cases, we just need to make sure that these inmates are sent into the general population and afforded the rough justice that was meted out the Jeffrey Dahmler and John J. Geoghan (pedophilic ex-priest and child killer.) Do you think Osama would survive long in the general pop of any American prison?

Answer 3

I am sure the UK won't have any problem with legally extradite obl to US...He does will get the death penalty here in the US so UK can't do or say anything for obl be put to death here in the US. it will be such waste of money paying to keep him in a prison. It will be less expensive just put him to death right away...

Answer 4

I think it is yet another reason that the US should abolish the death penalty. We have executed too many people that are later proved innocent. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and the U.S. are the only fully developed countries that have retained the death penalty.

Answer 5

That's fine. Execution is too good for him. Put him in a cell in the general population and let be someone's "*****" for the rest of the (short) life.

Answer 6

With some people you take them anyway you can get them.

Answer 7

Good. I'd rather torture him. :)