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Doesn't help if the US sentences him to death.

• tptacek 3y ago
  True. Or, they might shoot him out of a cannon. Or even nuke him. The guy is in talks right now with the DOJ for a misdemeanor plea, a mercy termination of a prosecution in which the accused appears to have voluntarily served out the sentence pre-trial. If the extradition had gone perfectly smoothly, the C.W. seems to be that he would have been facing single-digit years. Assange is not in fact all that important.
  • marcus_holmes 3y ago
    The USA is being asked for assurances that they won't charge him with anything that carries a death sentence. They're not being asked for assurances about nukes or cannons. So the UK judiciary are taking the threat of a death sentence seriously.
    • pvg 3y ago
      These assurance requests are routine and often legally required in countries with no or highly constrained death penalty. They happen in -> US extradition cases all the time.
      • marcus_holmes 3y ago
        I checked, and they still haven't issued this assurance. So no, this isn't just a boilerplate thing.