Reference Re Ng Extradition

Reference Re Ng Extradition was a 1991 case in which the <a href="/facts/Supreme_Court_of_Canada/RQJKhKzC">Supreme Court of Canada</a> held that it was permissible to extradite <a href="/facts/Charles_Ng/nRVfvf0M">Charles Ng</a>, a fugitive, to the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, where he was wanted on charges of several murders and might face the <a href="/facts/Death_penalty/4pbmeUIb">death penalty</a>. The issue came before the court in the form of a <a href="/facts/Reference_question/tFklxhHk">reference</a> from the federal government, which asked the court for an <a href="/facts/Advisory_opinion/EwK5R60z">advisory opinion</a> as to whether the extradition of a fugitive threatened with execution would violate the <a href="/facts/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms/sux7eg0A">Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms</a>.
Along with the <a href="/facts/Kindler_v._Canada_(Minister_of_Justice)/DQ2BdyDT">Kindler</a> case, the ruling in Re Ng Extradition was essentially overturned in 2001 with <a href="/facts/United_States_v._Burns/zGuK27dq">United States v. Burns</a>. In Burns, the Supreme Court found extraditing people to countries in which they might face the death penalty breached <a href="/facts/Fundamental_justice/VXjzaLR5">fundamental justice</a> under the Charter. 
In 1998, Ng was convicted by a jury in <a href="/facts/California/zLW2vdQJ">California</a> of eleven counts of murder and sentenced to death. As of March 2022<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reference_Re_Ng_Extradition&action=edit">[update]</a>, official <a href="/facts/California_Department_of_Corrections_and_Rehabilitation/fyvGHk8A">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation</a> records show Ng still waits on <a href="/facts/Death_row/xl4AeoID">death row</a>, where no executions have taken place <a href="/facts/Capital_punishment_in_California/pmT0Ulq9">since 2006</a>.

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Reference Re Ng Extradition