08-12-2010, 12:44 PM
David Guyatt Wrote:Peter Lemkin Wrote:Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Swedish law prohibits extradition to any nation with the death penalty, when the crime could engender the death penalty....but a legal triviality, I'm sure they are working furiously to overcome now.
I don't know Pete. But it should be a simple job for the US and Sweden to sign a diplomatic understanding where the US unequivocally states the US will not execute Assange if extradited.
Not only could we later read that diplomatic understanding on Wikileaks, but cynics like me would simply ask just how many inmates in the US prison system die from preventable deaths each year?
The answer is somewhere under 7000 per year.
Compare that to the number of executions in the year 2009: 52.
And there is always torture....our new 'truth serum'!
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