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Kingston Penitentiary, Kingston, Ontario July 13, 1936 Stabbed to death by an inmate. [3] Guard Kearwood "Kip" White Huron County Gaol, Goderich, Ontario December 25, 1941 Struck on the head with a hammer by an escaping inmate. Robert H. Canning Toronto 'Don' Jail, Toronto, Ontario June 10, 1944 Beaten and strangled by inmates during an escape.
Killed by 34-year-old bank robber Georges Marcotte using a semi-automatic rifle. Originally given the death penalty, capital punishment was abolished in Canada in 1976 and so he was given a life sentence instead and was later paroled in 1981. [46] Constable Denis Brabant St-Laurent Police Montreal, Quebec December 14, 1962
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 of the death penalty for murder on July 26, 1976, 1,481 people had been sentenced to death, and 710 had been executed. Of those executed, 697 were men and 13 women.
Six men Ankush Maruti Shinde, Rajya Appa Shinde, Ambadas Laxman Shinde, Raju Mhasu Shinde, Bapu Appa Shinde and Suresh Shinde were convicted and sentenced to death penalty in 2009 on charges of rape and murder. On 6 March 2019, the Supreme Court of India acquitted all the six death-row convicts and proclaimed them innocent. [3] [4]
Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn (January 18, 1967 – May 20, 1999), born Ernest Bruce Hayes, [1] was a Canadian bank robber.He was the only person in the last half-century to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure prisons.
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The following is a list of unsolved murders in Canada. Hundreds of homicides occur across Canada each year, many of which end up as cold cases . [ 1 ] In 2021, the country's intentional homicide rate stood at around 2.06 per 100,000 individuals, [ 2 ] increasing for the third consecutive year. [ 3 ]
Sturgeon Falls is a community and former town in Nipissing District, Ontario, located on the Sturgeon River. The community had a population of 6,939 at the 2021 census and a density of 1,129/km 2 (2,920 sq mi). [1] Following a failed legal challenge in 1997, [2] the community was merged into the municipality of West Nipissing in 1999.