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The U.S. has more legitimate case in the incident you mentioned (Sheinbein is his name, I think) than in the case of the Palestinian terrorists who are being released. In the case of the Palestinian terrorists, they committed crimes against U.S. citizens in a foreign jurisdiction -- in the Sheinbein case, the crime was committed by a U.S. citizen (I believe) against another U.S. citizen, here in the United States. He subsequently fled the country to avoid standing trial in Maryland for his crime.

I'm not familiar with the Sheinbaum case, but as for the Paliterrorists, the US has traditionally exercised the right to try killers of US citizens overseas under US law.

Send the bastard to Guantanamo.

. . . the US has traditionally exercised the right to try killers of US citizens overseas under US law.

I believe this is only in the event the killer is not charged in another jurisdiction. This is why the U.S. will have a very hard time charging the mastermind of the Achille Lauro hijacking and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer -- he was already tried and convicted in Italy.