Comment extradition (Score 2) 146
The extradition was put on hold in March after London's High Court said the United States must provide assurances he would not face the death penalty.
We can't actually make that promise. We can promise that the current administration won't seek the death penalty, but that promise would bind neither the next administration nor would it prevent any state from filing charges that carry the death penalty.
To make that promise, we would literally have to rewrite our extradition treaty with the UK and the Congress would have to ratify the new treaty.