Capital Punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned homicide of a person as punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that someone is punished with the death penalty is called a death sentence, and the act of carrying out such a sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner awaiting his or her execution is condemned and is "on death row". Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, capital offences or capital felonies, and vary depending on the jurisdiction, but commonly include serious crimes against the person such as murder, mass murder, aggravated …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
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private business, the virtual abolition of capital punishment, the relative classlessness of society, … private business, the virtual abolition of capital punishment,” etc.). It is also startling because it …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English
Vice Admiral Sir Humphrey Thomas Walwyn (1879–1957) was the British-appointed governor of Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946 – a period of remarkable change that would culminate in Newfoundland’s union with …
1942, in what proved to be the last use of capital punishment in Newfoundland, a steely governor opted …
BCCLA: BC Civil Liberties Association · 7 September 2023 English
29 of the Interpretation Act, or by the act of a person acting under the general supervision of a medical practitioner, at the request of a grievously and irremediably ill …
deterrence in society, and the view that capital punishment is inconsistent with the sanctity of human … that “in Canada, Parliament has decided that capital punishment is not an appropriate penalty for crimes … expression in our legal system which prohibits capital punishment. This prohibition is supported, in part, … the accused persons without assurances that capital punishment would not be imposed on them. Ms. Nygard … [1200] Although the analogy with Burns, capital punishment and fear of wrongful convictions is initially …
ICCS: Institute for Citizen-Centred Service · 10 April 2023
123 Guidelines on the Legislative Framework for Civil Registration, Vital Statistics and Identity Management United Nations New York, 2023 Department of Economic and Social Affairs The Department of Economic and …
107 Nei- the Child, art. 40 (3) (a). ther capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 28 February 2023 English
For a change Orpheus / listens to the other / musicians once the hum / of his lyre no longer / hangs like moss from branches / in the forest …
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DDN: Dundurn Press · 7 February 2023 English
After Jack Letts went to Syria as an idealistic 18-year-old, his parents faced a savaging from the tabloid press. They sent him a small amount of money to try to …
and had made threatening statements about “capital punishment” to Pope Benedict XVI after the lat- ter …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 January 2023 English
In the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain and the United States, highlighting the virtues of the Stuart monarchs in contrast to liberal, democratic, and materialist …
be legitimately deposed, or even killed by capital punishment or assassination in the absence of other …
ICCLR: International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy · 5 October 2022 English
The Correctional Service of Canada is well represented with submissions addressing such issues as: women offenders; a residential mental health initiative: the use of technology to efficiently share offender related …
exercise of the death penalty, even though capital punishment does not exist for juveniles in the Philippines …
St. Leonard's Society of Canada · 21 September 2022 English
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began • LifeLine Project • The first In- capital punishment formalizing founded Reach • Increasing number …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 20 May 2022 English
In the turbulent period from 2018 to 2021, Canada saw a majority government reduced to minority standing, a political dynasty tainted by scandal, a neighbouring nation’s struggle to transfer power, …
gave a powerful speech on the abolition of capital punishment. Martin, as finance minister, was a stalwart …
