CRIM 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Drug Courts In The United States, Dean Wilson
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P1: capital punishment: last two deaths by hanging in canada were arthur lucas & ronald turpin (1962, toronto"s don jail (in 1962, once charter was introduced, capital punishment was abolished. Some trivia: the death penalty is still used in the following democratic countries: Data on the use of the death penalty is classified as a state secret in: belarus, china, vietnam. Data from abolitionist countries: does not support the deterrent effect of capital punishment. What is the brutalization effect: cause and effect relationship between executions & increase homicide rate, which occurs because executions diminish the public"s respect for life. In 1967, the government passed legislation to temporarily suspend the death penalty for all crimes of murder except the killing of a police officer or a prison guard: on december 29th, 1972 - the 5 year moratorium ended. In may 1973 another bill was passed to extend it for another 5 years: before this new suspension ended, the government (during pierre.