Will Italy Protect This Texas Murder Suspect?

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]Let me talk to you about Italy and most of the countries in the European Union and the way they handle these extradition issues and even though it seems like it would be an odd place for someone to go, let's talk about why Lee Gelli would have gone there. Why Why did he Why do you think he chose Italy?

[00:00:19]You know, uh the best we can do is kind of guess from what's been already put out in the public and he claims to Italian authorities that this place was one of his wife's favorite places to go.

[00:00:30]Um it's possible that he thought maybe he could blend in there. It's really I I don't know what he was thinking because really any of these European Union countries are going to cooperate with the United States on an extradition proceeding. The big question uh really for each of these countries and for Italy is going to be whether or not the death penalty is on the table. The death penalty has been abolished for decades in Italy and uh they are not likely to send someone back to the United States thinking that this person could be sent to their death because it is against their own country's policy. But the prosecution's office can fix the problem by simply saying we're not going to seek death in this case.