There is no mystery here. US prosecuters have almost certainly agreed not to seek the death penalty.

KT: Do you get bonus miles for murdering the parents of the kid kicking the back of your seat?

Steve - It seems to me that if your original post was questioning why the French were going to send him back "expeditiously", then your post should be sent to the French Embassy. <BR><BR>I doubt that any American can tell what's in the French Judicial mind. Or are you just asking a rhetorical and political question?

The poor bugger asked a political question. He smells communism wherever the state provides anything to make life easier.<BR><BR>C'est la lutte-finale:<BR>Groupons-nous, et demain, L'Internationale<BR>Sera le genre humain<BR><BR>SFIO