UK: Sajid Javid tells US: We won't block death penalty for Isil 'Beatles'

[TomSea]

Sajid Javid tells US: We won't block death penalty for Isil 'Beatles'
Ben Riley-Smith, US Editor 23 July 2018 • 12:07pm Follow

Britain has secretly abandoned its blanket opposition to the death penalty and Guantanamo Bay to allow two notorious members of the "Beatles" group of Isil terrorists to be sent to America, The Telegraph can reveal.

Documents seen by this newspaper reveal that the UK Government has agreed to hand over intelligence to help prosecute the captured jihadists Alexanda Kotey and Shafee El-Sheikh, who both held British citizenship, in the US courts.

In a letter sent by Sajid Javid to Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General, the Home Secretary says that Britain will demand no “assurances” that the pair will not be executed in America.

Read more at: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/22/uk-drops-death-penalty-guantanamo-opposition-opens-door-execution/

[TomSea]

This is well and good. I'm not familiar with that many Islamic terrorists we have executed per going through the judicial system, even if it be at Guantanamo Bay.  We certainly put them on trial.

More reading: https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/2018/02/09/the-end-of-the-line-for-the-beatles-of-the-islamic-state/