Posts Tagged ‘death penalty’

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  Good news, bad news

  Maryland abolishes the death penalty and the UN celebrates the first ‘international day of happiness’

  by macleans.ca - Thursday, March 21, 2013

• Bad news for Canadian on death row: bid to abolish death penalty fails in Montana

  CALGARY – A proposal to abolish Montana’s death penalty has failed again — bad…

  by The Canadian Press - Wednesday, March 13, 2013

• Texas murderer to be first woman executed in the U.S. since 2010

  Former Texas former nursing home therapist Kimberly McCarthy, 51, will become the first woman…

  by Emily Senger - Tuesday, January 29, 2013

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  The ACLU’s bid to save the Canadian on Death Row

  Challenge to protocol means Albertan could die of old age before constitutionality of capital punishment is decided

  by Colby Cosh - Wednesday, August 1, 2012

• ‘I disagree with proponents of capital punishment for many practical and legal reasons’

  Conservative backbencher Brent Rathgeber explains why he opposes the death penalty.
  As with any…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, July 6, 2012

• Foreign justice

  The Justice Minister’s decision to order the extradition of Hassan Diab is a source…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, April 13, 2012

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  Boisvenu on convicted murderers: give them a rope

  The Conservative senator seemingly has some ideas on reducing prison expenses

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, February 1, 2012

• Who supports the death penalty?

  Prominent members of the federal government—that’s who

  by Aaron Wherry - Wednesday, January 19, 2011

• Standing idle on foreign executions: yes we can

  Canadian murderer Ronald Allen Smith is entitled to the benefit of a written, objective government policy concerning his situation

  by Colby Cosh - Friday, October 15, 2010

• Front-row seat to an execution

  Capital punishment in Japan it seems to be growing in popularity

  by Stephanie Findlay - Thursday, August 26, 2010

• 'I would like the firing squad please. There are no mistakes.'

  A condemned man chose death by bullets rather than lethal injection—and he’s not alone

  by Rachel Mendleson - Saturday, June 12, 2010

• A call for justice from Bangladesh

  One of the convicted killers of PM Hasina’s family is in Canada

  by Michael Petrou - Tuesday, March 16, 2010

• Philosophical question of the day

  Colby Cosh, writing a few weeks ago about the government’s shift on clemency policy….

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, September 11, 2009

• Is it possible to both condemn and condone?

  Canwest’s Randy Boswell looks at the government’s policy on capital punishment abroad, specifically now…

  by Aaron Wherry - Friday, July 24, 2009

• Says him anyway

  Federal judge Robert Barnes rebukes the government’s policy toward Canadians facing the death penalty…

  by Aaron Wherry - Thursday, March 5, 2009

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