The Vancouver Provice Editorial
Canada all but abolished the death penalty in 1976. It still exists for special cases in the military, though it is never used.
The last legal execution in this country was 1962 in Toronto's Don Jail, when two men, shall we say, dropped into history. Between 1867 and 1962, 710 people were executed in Canada.
It is a point of pride for millions of Canadians that we no longer hang our citizens.
Read on...
Finally a major paper makes the obvious point. Tom
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