Under an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights adopted in...

Under an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights adopted in 2000, "no one may be removed, expelled or extradited to a state where there is a serious risk that he or she would be subjected to the death penalty, torture or other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
But EU officials fear the Bush administration may now be challenging that taboo with a list of proposals for anti-terrorism cooperation sent to Brussels. A demand that the EU "eliminate discrimination against United States and third (non-EU) countries' extradition requests to member states" features on a U.S. list of 47 proposals. The list also calls for the EU to "explore alternatives to extradition including expulsion and deportation, where legally available and more efficient".
One U.S. official said that if it was easier for a European country to uproot and expel a terrorist suspect to his country of origin or a third country than to extradite him to the United States, "that might make it easier to do a snatch".
U.S. and EU officials say the proposals were drafted at the request of Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who holds the EU's rotating presidency, and European Commission President Romano Prodi when they visited Washington on September 20.
The wish list does not explicitly mention capital punishment, but U.S. officials said it was implicit as one of the grounds on which they fear being discriminated against in EU extradition proceedings.