[gridlock]

Actually, I think we have bilateral agreements with the French that require us to refrain from executing a French citizen, even if he commits a crime in the US and is convicted. They wouldn't even agree to extradite the Unicorn Killer, Earth Day founder Ira Einhorn for twenty years, because they were afraid Pennsylvania was going to kill him. It is only when Pennsylvania agreed to take the death penalty off the table that Einhorn was extradited.

How much you want to bet some hot shot pro-bono lawyer is already ginning up an appeal for Mumia based on his new-found French citizenship.

[Rolland]

I don't know, but this is intresting, do you think there is such an agreement? As I study law I find it pretty intresting that there's an bilateral agreement between two states that certain forms of sentencing cannot by applied to the other country's citizens. The case that France would not hand over a person that could face the death penalty is for sure, I don't think any European state would do that, at least not without garanties.

[cyborg]

Lord is he going to turn into another law dodging Roman Polanski?