[uniqueuid]

This is actually often the case. See for example the EU charter of fundamental rights:

> Article 19 - Protection in the event of removal, expulsion or extradition

> 1. Collective expulsions are prohibited.

> 2. 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.

[edit: source] https://fra.europa.eu/en/eu-charter/article/19-protection-ev...

[danogentili]

That didn't help McAfee though, I wonder why :)

[garblegarble]

I would guess it's because the US doesn't impose the death penalty for tax evasion...

[tluyben2]

I did not see the details of the extradition, but Spain often does things that are against EU rules and those things end up in EU court a decade later. I wonder if this was allowed for Spain to do and if McAfee could not have turned to EU to force ruling on this. Then, whether or not they would overturn, you are a decade further along.