R (Wellington) v Secretary of State for the Home Department – WLR Daily

Posted December 11th, 2008 in extradition, human rights, law reports, murder by sally

R (Wellington) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 72; [2008] WLR (D) 380

“A mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without eligibility for parole imposed for two offences of murder in the first degree did not amount to inhuman or degrading punishment so that the Secretary of State had not acted unlawfully in ordering the extradition of an applicant to stand trial in the United States of America.”

WLR Daily, 10th December 2008

Source: www.lawreports.co.uk

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