Capital punishment in Canada dates to Canada's earliest history, including its period as first a French then a British colony. From 1867 to the elimination...
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Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for...
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Capital punishment in traditional Jewish law has been defined in Codes of Jewish law dating back to medieval times, based on a system of oral laws contained...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Montana. The state has not carried out an execution in over seventeen years, with its last...
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Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime. It has historically been used...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in China. It is applicable to offenses ranging from murder to drug trafficking. Executions are carried out by lethal...
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Capital punishment in France (French: peine de mort en France) is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional...
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In the United States, capital punishment (killing a person as punishment for allegedly committing a crime) is a legal penalty throughout the country at...
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Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal penalty. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three...
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Capital punishment in the Bahamas is a legal punishment, and is conducted by hanging at Fox Hill Prison. The last execution in the country was on January...
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The debate over capital punishment in the United States existed as early as the colonial period. As of April 2022, it remains a legal penalty within 28...
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Rampage: Capital Punishment (originally titled Rampage: You End Now) is a 2014 action film and a direct sequel to the 2009 film Rampage. It is directed...
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Capital Punishment is the debut studio album by American rapper Big Pun, released by Loud Records and Fat Joe's Terror Squad Productions. Released on April...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Pakistan. Although there have been numerous amendments to the Constitution, there is yet to be a provision prohibiting...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Cuba, however it is seldom resorted to. The last executions were carried out in 2003. National legislation provides...
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Capital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a number of countries in their history. It is a legal punishment...
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Capital punishment – the process of sentencing convicted offenders to death for the most serious crimes (capital crimes) and carrying out that sentence...
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Cruel and unusual punishment is a phrase in common law describing punishment that is considered unacceptable due to the suffering, pain, or humiliation...
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Incarceration in Canada is one of the main forms of punishment, rehabilitation, or both, for the commission of an indictable offense and other offenses...
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Charter (protection against cruel and unusual punishment). The case cited an earlier extradition decision, Canada v. Schmidt (1987), which stated that extradition...
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Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The...
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United States v Burns (category Capital punishment in Canada)
unusual punishments. The case essentially overruled Kindler v Canada (Minister of Justice) (1991) and Reference Re Ng Extradition (1991). In Burns, the...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Iran. The list of crimes punishable by death includes murder; rape; child molestation; homosexuality; drug trafficking;...
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Reference Re Ng Extradition (category Capital punishment in Canada)
Reference Re Ng Extradition was a 1991 case in which the Supreme Court of Canada held that it was permissible to extradite Charles Ng, a fugitive, to the...
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Capital punishment in Aruba has been prohibited by Article I.4 of the Constitution of Aruba since 1 January 1986, the day Aruba became a constituent country...
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1885 hangings at Battleford (category Capital punishment in Canada)
material loss. Prior to the rebellion the Canadian government's actions in the District of Saskatchewan resulted in starvation, disease, and death among the...
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possession of significant amounts of drugs, constitutes a capital offence and may result in capital punishment for drug trafficking, or possession assumed to be...
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Hangman's Graveyard (category Documentary films about capital punishment)
in the forgotten cemetery - George Bennett, Jan Ziolko and Frederick Davis - and examines the history of the Don Jail, capital punishment in Canada and...
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Arthur Lucas (category People convicted of murder by Canada)
Lucas, and the End of Capital Punishment in Canada. Toronto: Dundurn Press. p. 41. ISBN 9781550026726. Capital punishment in Canada: Arthur Lucas and Ronald...
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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in Jamaica. Currently, the only crime punishable by death is aggravated murder. The method of execution is hanging...
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