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Originally Posted by cal_guy

It's not the government that requires that all fugutive to be protected from the death penalty, that comes from a 2001 Supreme Court of Canada decision and is mirror by other

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Burns

The judiciary is a branch of government, and in any case the executive branch could send someone back to possibly face the death penalty if they really wanted to. So far they have not.