topic of great debate, over both the issue of deterrence and of conscience. There are few matters

which stir such heated debate, there are both abolitionists and retentionists, there are also those in

the middle, the people who can discern legitimacy from each group. Each group has a set of

beliefs which do apply to this matter, perhaps some groups subscribe to the old testament and its

injunction " an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth " ( The law of Moses, The Old Testament ), or

possibly some simply view capital punishment as legalized homicide, whatever the case may be

one must put aside personal beliefs and attempt to comprehend the facts and statistics of this issue

Capital punishment in Canada effectively ended on December 10, 1962 with the double

hanging of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin in the Don Jail in Toronto ( Anderson, 78-79 ). After

these executions the government began to commute all death sentences to life sentences. Then in

1976 a bill was introduced by the liberal government, abolishing the death penalty which passed

by a narrow margin of 130 to 124 ( Ch

allow then to claim back their lives, which were indeed taken away. Perhaps this argument is best

executing the wrong person. This is a matter of great importance, obviously society does not

greatly by media and emotion it becomes clear that perhaps the Members of Parliament did not

illustrates the fact that Government at that time did indeed scorn the delegate democracy system

discouraging and preventing an action from occurring" (Webster, 307)

And there are indeed studies no reiterate this, as shown in the 1970's when Prof. Isaac Ehrlich

public felt this way, one such reason was the publics perception that the vote in 1976 was not a

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