Canada's reversal of death row policy called unconstitutional

An application to the court says the federal government acted unconstitutionally when it reversed a long-standing tradition of lobbying foreign governments to show mercy on Canadian citizens facing death sentences.

So a reversal of tradition automatically means we are being unconstitutional?...I dont get it? Smith walked his victims into the woods at gunpoint and shot them execution style.

regardless of any remorse he shows now he deserves to die.

Not in Canadian law.

You forgot, because he wanted to feel how it felt to kill someone.

Basically killing on a lark.

He killed 2 Native Indians, he should be turned over the the tribe, they have some unique ways of killing their captures.

tie'em to an ant hill, boil the brains over a fire..

You forgot, because he wanted to feel how it felt to kill someone.

Basically killing on a lark.

He killed 2 Native Indians, he should be turned over the the tribe, they have some unique ways of killing their captures.

tie'em to an ant hill, boil the brains over a fire..

I suggest dousing him in gasoline, giving him a ten second head start, then have a couple dozen folk shoot flaming arrows at him.

If he "somehow" manages to survive then its gods will and he should be sent on his way.

There is nothing in our system that prohibits Canada from supporting capital punishment in the future.

Supporting it, no, but the SCC has ruled that actually having it or doing just about anything to someone in Canada that would make them subject to it in another country is unconstitutional.

I don't think the Constitution has any legal application for people currently outside of Canada, though.

I wish the government would try to stop it, but I want the government to try to stop state-sponsored slaughter worldwide, whether or not Canadian citizens are involved.

Supporting it, no, but the SCC has ruled that actually having it or doing just about anything to someone in Canada that would make them subject to it in another country is unconstitutional.

I don't think the Constitution has any legal application for people currently outside of Canada, though.

I wish the government would try to stop it, but I want the government to try to stop state-sponsored slaughter worldwide, whether or not Canadian citizens are involved.



World Peace. Pass the pipe man, that's gotta be good shit you're smoke'in.....

Smith and other Canadian murderers should all be brought home to serve out their sentences, but not in Canadian prisons. Living with the families and in the homes of Liberal/NDP politicians and supporters should be acceptable as new residences for these poorly misunderstood individuals.

Any volunteers, lefties?

I dont remember seeing anyone cry when jefrrey dalmer got wacked in jail.

the death penalty could be re-enacted tomorrow, in Canada, within the parameters of the current Constitution and Charter.

Just have to be lethal injection, and not electric chair, or such.

Its not unconstitutional, and polls have shown canadians on the CPC's side on this.

No clemency on the death penalty of those convicted in democratic countries.

Gregory Parsons, Ronald Dalton, Thomas Sophonow, James Driskell, Guy Paul Morin and David Milgaard were all convicted in a democratic country.

Supporting it, no, but the SCC has ruled that actually having it or doing just about anything to someone in Canada that would make them subject to it in another country is unconstitutional.

I don't think the Constitution has any legal application for people currently outside of Canada, though.

I wish the government would try to stop it, but I want the government to try to stop state-sponsored slaughter worldwide, whether or not Canadian citizens are involved.



World Peace. Pass the pipe man, that's gotta be good shit you're smoke'in.....

You sir, are mentally deficient.

The death penalty is not "state sponsored slaughter" when it is applied as the result of due process in which the defendant is allowed to make the case for their defence.

Not me.