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Originally Posted by browna
As simple as it sounds, you don't want to risk execution, don't kill someone in a state with a death penalty.
Canada should deport him like any other criminal, and let justice in the jurisdiction he committed the crime try him as per the laws in that jurisdiction.
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But unfortunately (or fortunately) Canada has its own laws that pertain to persons remanded in its custody. We have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a jurisprudence which applies to such a person, regardless of whether the matter is a trial or a procedural one as in this case.
And as an aside, there is evidence that the death penalty is not an effective deterrent (one of the reasons we abolished it). People are no less likely to commit a capital offence in a retentionist state as they would in an abolitionist state.