And, guess what? Countries without death penalties ROUTINELY demand that the death penalty be taken off the table before they will comply with an extradition request for one of their citizens to the US.
If they can make their laws govern whether one of their nationals gets extradited here, then WE can apply the same principle when extraditing one of our citizens would cause her to be subject to double jeopardy, or when some Muslim country wants one of our citizens so they can execute him for "insulting Islam".
Yes,I'm fully aware of that and oppose that position vigorously...particularly with Canada and Mexico.If it were up to me my attitude with those two countries would be "no deal,if you adore our murderers so much you can keep them".With such a policy in place those two countries would come to their senses very quickly.
If they can make their laws govern whether one of their nationals gets extradited here, then WE can apply the same principle...
Of course we can.As I've suggested,I'd *never* extradite anyone,of any nationality,to Germany for the crime of "denying the Holocaust" because it's a silly law.I'd also never extradite anyone,of *any* nationality,to China because their legal system is a total fraud.But this is murder,not denying the Holocaust....and it's Italy,a civilized country,and not Bangladesh.
And BTW...this girl can appeal her case not only to the Italian courts but to the European Court of Justice...a court made up of judges that make Supreme Court Justice Quotamayor look positively medieval by comparison.