Following the events of 11 September, ''anti-terrorist''...

Following the events of 11 September, ''anti-terrorist'' proposals which would include expansion of the death penalty were made by legislators in several US states, including Alabama, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio and North Carolina. Within a week of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, the New York legislature had enacted an ''anti-terrorism'' package which included expansion of the death penalty. Legislators in Iowa and Wisconsin proposed reintroduction of the death penalty following the 11 September attacks.
On 13 November President George W. Bush signed a Military Order on the Detention, Treatment and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism. The Order would try people deemed by the President to be suspected of involvement in ''international terrorism''. The commissions would have the power to pass death sentences. T
he Military Order generated widespread international and national concern.
On 17 December the European Parliament adopted a resolution on judicial cooperation between the EU and the USA in the framework of fighting terrorism calling for any international agreement signed to fully respect the principles of the ECHR.
It again demanded that the death penalty be abolished in the USA and reminded member States that they have obligations in this connection. This means that extradition to the USA is only possible if the USA guarantees that it will not apply the death penalty. Moreover, extradition or refusal of entry must not be used as ''disguised'' extradition procedures.