Plus, I'm on a roll with the rule breaking. Hoping he will just skip the punishment and go for instantaneous death. Hm. Maybe I'll get the "guilletine." he he he... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
Here's the story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-cornbleet29aug29,1,6080226.story
It's very confusing to me... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
I think it is the State Legislature that must overturn the moratorium. I've not heard many calls for it. The Gov. who imposed it did so because a slew of people on Death Row were proven innocent or did not get fair hearings. So he said, no death penalthy until we can insure no innocent people are put to death. Which is an impossible standard and in effect abolishing the dealth penalty without having public support to do so.
I suppose it could be brought back, depending on the circumstances. But I think there is a lot of death/outrage fatigue in the country at the moment. "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
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.
Anyway, if we are to believe the claims in the article, they just don't extradite French nationals, period. "The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
We are papthetic little adjunct state, our loyalty never even remarked upon because it's never been questioned. keep to the Fen Causeway
Wouldn't it be interesting if BAe managers were extradited over that bribery scandal that was made to go away. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aCOmPSr4ctQk&refer=latin_america "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
from Human rights watches press briefing on the Geneva conventions
POW status provides protection only for the act of taking up arms against opposing military forces, and if that is all a POW has done, then repatriation at the end of the conflict would be required. But as Article 82 of Third Geneva explains, POW status does not protect detainees from criminal offenses that are applicable to the detaining powers' soldiers as well. That is, if appropriate evidence can be collected, the United States would be perfectly entitled to charge the Guantanamo detainees with war crimes, crimes against humanity, or other violations of U.S. criminal law, whether or not they have POW status. As Article 115 of the Third Geneva Convention explains, POWs detained in connection with criminal prosecutions are entitled to be repatriated only "if the Detaining Power [that is, the United States] consents."
Either way, if Peterson ever left French soil, the U.S. then could arrest Peterson and prosecute him in Illinois, without risking double jeopardy protection, he contended.
Yeah, sure, after Guantanamo, it is clear the US has the right to arrest anyone, anywhere, except in France. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
