I'd say that probably, while that statute is stilll on the books, even if it's not being used, and even if there has been a moratorium against it being used, then you would still be classed as a state that has the death penalty. It wouldn't be unreasonable for his lawyers to argue thata future govoner could decide that the moratorium should end and so he is at risk. I think it is a general point of principal to not extradite in cases where the death penalty is a possibillity. Although I think that in some cases extradition has been agreed when the local prosecution has agreed to wave the death penalty.

The other possible reasonis that it may say in the French constityution that citizens cannot be extradfited to third party states under certain conditions. As An example of something like this look at Ronnie Biggs one of the UK's great train robbers. He fled to Brazil, and managed to avoid extradition for 16 years as  he had fathered a Brazilian child, and under Brazilian law, he had to remain in Brazil to pay for the childs upkeep.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.