Britain said it had agreed to send a man to the United...

Britain said it had agreed to send a man to the United States to face a murder trial after obtaining assurances he would not face death penalty.A Home Office spokesman said Home Secretary David Blunkett had signed a surrender warrant allowing Christopher St John to be extradited back the US to face trial for the murder of a relative of his wife in the state of Pennsylvania in 2000.According to British law, if a suspect is wanted in another country, a judge first determines whether there is a case to answer and the Home Secretary then decides whether to allow the extradition to proceed.The spokesman said Britain, which does not allow death penalty, had first obtained a pledge from American authorities that they would not execute St John."It is the UK's policy whenever extraditing a prisoner that they ask for a binding agreement that if the maximum penalty the prisoner could face is the death penalty, that such a sentence would be commuted to life imprisonment," a Reuters report quoted the home office spokesman as saying.