The Practice Of Execution In Canada
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The Practice of Execution in Canada
Author | : Ken Leyton-Brown |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2010-04-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780774859325 |
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It is easy to forget that the death penalty was an accepted aspect of Canadian culture and criminal justice until 1976. The Practice of Execution in Canada is not about what led some to the gallows and others to escape it. Rather, it examines how the routine rituals and practices of execution can be seen as a crucial social institution. Drawing on hundreds of case files, Ken Leyton-Brown shows that from trial to interment, the practice of execution was constrained by law and tradition. Despite this, however, the institution was not rigid. Criticism and reform pushed executions out of the public eye, and in so doing, stripped them of meaningful ritual and made them more vulnerable to criticism.
Drop Dead
Author | : Lorna Poplak |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-07-29 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9781459738232 |
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From Confederation in 1867 until the abolition of the death penalty in 1976, 704 people were hanged in Canada. The book examines how trial, conviction, and punishment operated then, and the relevance of capital punishment today. It profiles notable individuals: victims, murderers, judges, jurors, the wrongfully convicted ... and the hangman.
Double Trap
Author | : John Melady |
Publsiher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2005-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781550025712 |
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In 1868, a man who robbed and killed a farmer and his family was hanged in Goderich. It was the last public hanging in Canada.
Capital Punishment in Canada
Author | : David Chandler |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1976-01-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780773591585 |
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Chandler has thoroughly researched the Canadian context of the recurring and often emotional discussion of capital punishment.
The Justice of the Peace in Ontario
Author | : Paul Kowarsky |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0433498277 |
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Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Author | : Carolyn Strange |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781487508371 |
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This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of sex killers while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
A Keen Soldier
Author | : Andrew Clark |
Publsiher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2012-11-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307368737 |
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When award-winning journalist Andrew Clark found the file on Harold Joseph Pringle, he uncovered a Canadian tragedy that had lain buried for fifty years. This extraordinary story of the last soldier to be executed by the Canadian military -- likely wrongfully -- gives life to the forgotten casualties of war and brings their honour home at last. Harold Pringle was underage when the Second World War broke out, eager to leave quiet Flinton, Ontario, to serve by his father’s side. But few who volunteered to fight “the good fight” realized what horror lay ahead; soon Pringle found himself in Italy, fighting on the bloody “Hitler Line,” where two-thirds of his company were killed. Shell-shocked, he embarked on a tragic, final course that culminated in a suspect murder conviction. His appeal was reviewed by the highest levels of government, right up to prime minister King. But Private Pringle was put to death -- the only soldier the Canadians executed in the whole of the Second World War. His own countrymen carried out the orders, forbidden to go home before completing this last grotesque assignment, even though the war had ended. The Pringle file was closed and stayed that way for fifty years -- until Andrew Clark uncovered it and began a two-year investigation on Pringle’s life in the army. A Keen Soldier is a true-life military detective story that shows another side of what many consider our proudest military campaign. Andrew Clark examines the fallout of a crisis that disfigured our national conscience and continues to raise questions about the ethics of war. And he does so with eloquence and a deep compassion, not only for his subject but for all wartime soldiers -- even the men who executed Pringle and the officer who gave the order to fire.
Conquest by Law
Author | : Christie Jefferson,Canada. Solicitor General Canada,Canada. Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 0662224515 |
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This document, originally written in 1978, is a comprehensive report on the traditional forms of justice among Aboriginal peoples across Canada and the impact that western settlement had on those systems. It begins with a chapter on traditional justice among the Micmac and Naskapi. Part 2 covers the struggle for power as Europeans invaded traditional Aboriginal lands, and includes descriptions of civilizations & traditional justice of the First Nations of the central regions (Ojibwe, Iroquois, Huron). Part 3 covers traditional & European justice in the British colonial period, 1763-1867. Part 4 reviews the effect of Canadian legislation on Native peoples after Confederation, especially in the western provinces, and the numerous rebellions & protest actions against injustice. The final part covers the period from the granting of the unconditional franchise to Aboriginal peoples and the various movements for Aboriginal rights and a reformed justice system.