The Extradition Act of 2003 allows the UK to extradite individuals to certain countries unless that person could face the death penalty but that's gone out of the window as the UK's stance is now we are okay with it in certain other countries.
The home secretary, Sajid Javid, wrote to the US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to confirm the UK 'would not demand a death penalty assurance' in the case of two former Britons accused of being members of the Islamic State cell known as 'the Beatles'.
Where the UK's position was on of blanket opposition towards the death penalty in all it's forms, the Conservative Government have adopted the stance of not persuading countries like the US, China and Iran to drop the death penalty but actively encouraging it.
The two accused have been stripped of their British citizenship and are therefore stateless after being captured in January and have been at the centre of a dispute over whether they should be returned to the UK for trial or face justice in the USA.
Amnesty International said: 'This is a deeply worrying development. The home secretary must unequivocally insist that Britain’s longstanding position on the death penalty has not changed and seek cast-iron assurances from the US that it will not be used'.
Prosecute them and if found guilty beyond reasonable doubt, lock them up forever with no parole but my murdering them we stoop stoop to their abhorrent level.
You can't be in favour of it in some circumstances and not in others so we are either against the death penalty or not, and if we are then these are very dark times indeed.
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