Sixty years after Canada’s last execution, the discussion about capital punishment has not gone away
Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in CanadaAt two minutes past midnight on Dec. 11, 1962, while a small band of demonstrators circled outside in the bitter cold with placards protesting in bold black letters that “hanging is also murder” and that “two wrongs do not make a right,” Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas dropped back to back through the gallows trap door in the execution chamber of the Don Jail in Toronto.
Nash for bald tires and a broken front headlight. Both men were armed. After a vicious exchange of gunfire, Nash lay dying at the scene. Turpin, who had been wounded, was arrested and charged with murder. Lucas and Turpin were both found guilty and sentenced to death on May 10 and June 13, 1962, respectively.
Among the principal contentions of the pro camp are that capital punishment is the appropriate penalty for odious crimes, and that, if the punishment is severe enough, it will serve as a deterrent. Deterrence, it is argued, works in two ways: Specific deterrence will prevent an offender from reoffending, and general deterrence will discourage others from committing the same crime.
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