Human rights — Inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment — Death penalty — Whether constituting inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950, Articles 2(1) and 3 — Protocol VI to the Convention — Circumstances in which penalty imposed — Delay in execution — “Death row” phenomenon — Whether constituting a violation of Article 3

Human rights — Scope of human rights treaty — European Convention on Human Rights, 1950 — Extradition proceedings — Whether State responsible under Convention if it extradites fugitive for treatment in requesting State — Threat of death sentence in requesting State — Right to fair trial

Extradition — Capital offences — Offence carrying death penalty in requesting State but not in requested State — United Kingdom-United States Extradition Treaty, 1972 — Right of requested State to seek assurance that death penalty will not be imposed