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The Rosenbergs weren't extradited from a country which would require a formal guarantee that the death penalty would not be used, so are not a relevant precedent.



I bet the formal guarantee will be negotiable, especially when on the other end is the US. That's why UK has a special relationship after all. Assange would have been safer in Russia than UK for sure.


It's not an unprecedented thing. Mexico forced the US to agree not to seek the death penalty for Joaquín Guzmán ("El Chapo") before extraditing him, and the US has kept to that agreement.


If the US executed someone extradited from the UK, that would be the last person extradited from the UK to the US.


No, it isn't negotiable, by both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.




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