[CaptainCrunch]

Actually its funny but the death penalty portion of the extradition treaty was requested by the Americans, since it was negotiated at a time when Canada still had the death penalty and the American's had recinded it. The American's wanted the opportunity to request that a Canadian or American being sent to Canada for a capital crime couldn't be executed.

I don't like the idea of someones sentence being unduly influenced via a political decision, but sadly if Canada sent a guy back to the states to be fried there would be a huge voter backlash against the government that did it.