America asked the UK for the extradition of a gun enthusiast...

America asked the UK for the extradition of a gun enthusiast who moved to Britain in 1991. Prosecutors want to retry Robert Elmer Kleasen, 69, over the shooting of two Mormon missionaries, Gary Darley, 20, and Mark Fischer, 19, whose bodies he is said to have dismembered with a bandsaw and disposed of as chicken feed.
Kleasen was freed by US authorities after a court ruled that evidence at his original trial in 1974 was inadmissible because of a faulty search warrant. He had served two years on death row.However, a hearing at Bow Street Magistrates' Court, in Central London, was told that advances in DNA analysis and other forensic science techniques had established that there was a 99.9 per cent probability that he was the killer. James Lewis, QC, representing the American Government, said that Kleasen held a grudge towards the church because he felt it had "neglected him when he was incarcerated earlier for poaching a buffalo from an exotic game ranch".
Kleasen was remanded in custody and the case was adjourned until May 14
A British court would not extradite a defendant to face the death sentence, but Lewis said that the state of Texas had promised that Kleasen, if found guilty in America, would not be sentenced to death. Kleasen has always denied the charges.
Professor Speedy Rice, from Gonzaga University, in Spokane, Washington, told the court that Texas, a state renowned for its severe stance on capital punishment, might not keep its promise. He said: "Texas has always been very aggressive about its death penalty. It has the largest number of executions in the US.
"The problem is the politics of the death penalty. If the prosecutor decides to go ahead with the death penalty there's really no way to enforce the promise made here."