Death Penalty Countries

Canada’s death penalty was discarded in 1976, some 34 years ago, but it was a slow journey to abolition. Up until 1961 all murders in Canada were punishable by hanging. It was only in 1954 that rape was eliminated as a death penalty offence. Every year between 1954 and 1963 a private member’s bill was introduced into Parliament calling for the abolition of the death penalty. Each year it failed.

The first major debate in the House of Commons was in 1966 when our lawmakers agreed to

Death Penalty Countries