On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:10:47 +0200, Flip ter Biecht wrote: > What would happen if B.L. would land on Schiphol, Amsterdam, and ask > political asylum in NL, where he cannot be extradited to a country where he > would face death penalty? (We've already seen a Scottish trial in NL on > request of Khadafi, against the two suspects from the Lockerbie crash, so > why not an American trial under UN supervision?) > Really, I still hope that BL will come to the conclusion that keeping > Milosevic cs. company in safe & comfortable Scheveningen is an acceptable > way to go.
I don't think it would be constitutional to hold a trial in the US under the supervision of some other country or international organization. If BL wants to turn himself in to the authorities in NL and face trial there that would be just fine with me and most other Americans. I'm sure that if he were convicted there for the crimes he is accused of he would be locked away for the rest of his life. Many would prefer to see him get executed if convicted, but most people who are for the death penalty would go along with the idea of allowing him to surrender to a country which has no death penalty rather than to see people getting killed in an effort to capture him and bring him to the US to stand trial. What is of paramount importance is that BL be neutralized so that he can no longer direct terrorist activivities ever again. You don't have to kill a person to neutralize him. BTW, Americans are sharply divided over the death penalty. I think that those who are against it are slowly gaining influence for their views on this issue. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
