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Author: David B. Chandler
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780771097942
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChandler has thoroughly researched the Canadian context of the recurring and often emotional discussion of capital punishment.
Author: Ken Leyton-Brown
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-04-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0774859326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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.
Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1487508379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Frank W. Anderson
Publisher: Calgary : Frontier Pub.
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert J. Hoshowsky
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1770702466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShort-listed for the 2008 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Non-Fiction Although they committed separate crimes, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin met their deaths on the same scaffold at Toronto’s Don Jail on December 11, 1962. They were the last two people executed in Canada, but surprisingly little was known about them until now. This is the first book to uncover the lives and deaths of Turpin, a Canadian criminal, and Lucas, a Detroit gangster. The result of more than five years of research, The Last to Die is based on original interviews, hidden documents, trial transcripts, and newspaper accounts. Featuring crime scene photos and never-before-published documents, this riveting book also reveals the heroic efforts of lawyer Ross MacKay, who defended both men, and Chaplain Cyril Everitt, who remained with them to the end. What actually happened the night of the hangings is shrouded by myth and rumour. This book finally confirms the truth and reveals the gruesome mistake that cost Arthur Lucas not only his life but also his head.
Author: Carolyn Strange
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1487538111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Confederation to the partial abolition of the death penalty a century later, defendants convicted of sexually motivated killings and sexually violent homicides in Canada were more likely than any other condemned criminals to be executed for their crimes. Despite the emergence of psychiatric expertise in criminal trials, moral disgust and anger proved more potent in courtrooms, the public mind, and the hearts of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for determining the outcome of capital cases. Wherever death has been set as the ultimate criminal penalty, the poor, minority groups, and stigmatized peoples have been more likely to be accused, convicted, and executed. Although the vast majority of convicted sex killers were white, Canada’s racist notions of "the Indian mind" meant that Indigenous defendants faced the presumption of guilt. Black defendants were also subjected to discriminatory treatment, including near lynchings. In debates about capital punishment, abolitionists expressed concern that prejudices and poverty created the prospect of wrongful convictions. Unique in the ways it reveals the emotional drivers of capital punishment in delivering inequitable outcomes, The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History provides a thorough overview of sex murder and the death penalty in Canada. It serves as an essential history and a richly documented cautionary tale for the present.
Author: F. Murray Greenwood
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2000-10-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1554880351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1754 Eleanor Powers was hung for a murder committed during a botched robbery. She was the first woman condemned to die in Canada, but would not be the last. In Uncertain Justice, Beverley Boissery and Murray Greenwood portray a cast of women characters almost as often wronged by the law as they have wronged society. Starting with the Powers trial and continuing to the not-too-distant past, the authors expose the patriarchal values that lie at the core of criminal law, and the class and gender biases that permeate its procedures and applications. The writing style is similar to that of a popular mystery: "Harriet Henry lay dead. Horribly and indubitably. Her body sprawled against the bed, the head twisted at a grotesque angle. Foam engulfed the grinning mouth." Scholarly analysis combines with the narrative to make Uncertain Justice a fascinating and engaging read. There is a wealth of information about the emerging and evolving legal system and profession, the state of forensic science, the roles of juries, and the political turmoil and growing resistance to a purely class-based aristocratic form of government.
Author: Robert J. Hoshowsky
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2007-04-30
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1770704973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough they committed separate crimes, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin met their deaths on the same scaffold at Toronto's Don Jail on December 11, 1962. They were the last two people executed in Canada, but surprisingly little was known about them until now. This is the first book to uncover the lives and deaths of Turpin, a Canadian criminal, and Lucas, a Detroit gangster. The result of more than five years of research, The Last to Die is based on original interviews, hidden documents, trial transcripts, and newspaper accounts. Featuring crime scene photos and never-before-published documents, this riveting book also reveals the heroic efforts of lawyer Ross MacKay, who defended both men, and Chaplain Cyril Everitt, who remained with them to the end. What actually happened the night of the hangings is shrouded by myth and rumour. This book finally confirms the truth and reveals the gruesome mistake that cost Arthur Lucas not only his life but also his head.
Author: C. H. S. Jayewardene
Publisher: Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : Lexington Books
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDecision making where social policy is concerned is no easy task. What is best for society is not only a seemingly unanswerable question, it is also a question of which the answer is not known. There are some who believe that social choice is essentially a function of individual preferences, and what is good for society is what the majority desire. There are others who feel that society is an entity distinct from and independent of the individuals who comprise it, and what is good for society is unrelated to the needs and desires of the individual.
Author: Helen McKenzie
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780660125879
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