on 18/10/02 7:04 pm, Jim Sharkey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two words for you: Ira Einhorn. > > He murdered his girlfriend, mummified her, and stuffed her in a trunk. He > fled the country, and was living quite well in Europe. He was tried in > absentia in Pennsylvania, and given the death penalty. When he was discovered > in France, the French would not give him up to PA authorities until they > voided the trial and agreed not to seek the death penalty. They were quite > happy to infringe on American sovereignty to get their way and impose their > morality on the state of Pennsylvania. While I'm not saying ti would happen > in the ICC, if you are wondering why some people think that Europeans on the > court would use it to impose their values on Americans, you need look no > further than this.
The small amount I have read about the Einhorn case indicates to me that it is very likely that he did commit the murder, and is a general scumbag to boot. Nevertheless trial in absentia has various civil liberties problems, and extraditing someone from a place where the death penalty would not be required to somewhere it is demanded has others. Doesn't this kind of objection arise even inside the US? And it isn't just a matter of Europeans trying to impose values on the US either - there was that case of the Japanese chap who killed and ate his (French) girlfriend in France. The Japanese got him sent back to Japan to serve his sentence, and after a couple of years of 'therapy' he was released to become a minor celebrity. (Chat shows etc. "What do French women taste like?", "Chicken", laugh track...) -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
