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Originally Posted by facedowndeep  Canada considers the death penalty inhumane, and our constitution forbids us to send anyone to a country where they will receive inhumane punishment. |
Ding ding! Bingo!
Canada has its own laws too, hypoc8. Canada won't extradite to any country that is going to kill the (potential) extraditee - therefore America had the choice of leaving the guy in prison in Canada (I assume he was imprisoned there - you give no link or case info) or having him face US justice (but without the death penalty). They chose the latter.
It isn't a question of rolling over to demands - Canadian law simply states that they can't extradite someone to death - as it were.
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Originally Posted by hypoc8 I don't think it's a countries business to dictate how another country punishes its criminals. Your country may not believe in the death penalty, fine, we do and I think that it's up to a jury of his peers to decide his fate, not some outside source. |
But without the assurance of no death penalty it would be illegal under Canadian law for the man to be handed over to the US system. What part of this are you not getting?