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The last two people executed in Canada were Ronald Turpin, 29, and Arthur Lucas, 54, convicted of separate murders, at 12:02 am on December 11, 1962, at the Don Jail in Toronto. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] [ 29 ] The last woman to be hanged in Canada was Marguerite Pitre on January 9, 1953, at Bordeaux Prison in Montreal, for her part in the bombing of ...
On December 11, 1962, Ronald Turpin was one of the two last people to be executed in Canada. [1] Turpin had been convicted of the murder of Metropolitan Toronto police officer Frederick Nash, 31. On 12 February 1962, Nash pulled Turpin over for a broken taillight while the latter was fleeing from a robbery. [ 2 ]
Arthur Lucas (December 18, 1907 - December 11, 1962), originally from the U.S. state of Georgia, was one of the last two people to be executed in Canada, on 11 December 1962. [2] Lucas had been convicted of the murder of 44-year-old Therland Crater, a drug dealer and police informant from Detroit. He is also assumed to have killed 20-year-old ...
September 29 – Alouette 1, Canada's first satellite, is launched. October 25 – The Bedford Institute of Oceanography opens in Nova Scotia; October 25-November 12 – The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs. Diefenbaker refuses to put Canadian forces on alert, angering the U.S. government. December 11 – The last two hangings in Canada take place.
Despicable Me 4 grossed $361 million in the United States and Canada, and $610 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $971 million. [4] [5] In the United States and Canada, Despicable Me 4 was projected to gross $100–125 million from 4,030 theaters in its five-day opening weekend.
3 December 1977 [4] Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn: murder: hanging: A Bolivia: 30 August 1973 [47] Melquiades Suxo: murder: firearm: B Brazil: 28 April 1876 [48] Francisco: murder: hanging: A Canada: 11 December 1962 [4] Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas: capital murder: hanging: B Chile: 29 January 1985 [49] Carlos Topp Collins and Jorge ...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie: $100 million $146.4 million $574.9 million $788.4 million $1.363 billion [67] Migration: $72 million $12.5 million $127.3 million $171.4 million $298.7 million [68] [69] Despicable Me 4: $100 million $122.6 million $360.5 million $588.2 million $948.7 million [70] [71]
The Work of Justice: The Trials of Robert Raymond Cook : the Story of the Last Man Hanged in Alberta. Wolf Willow Press. ISBN 1-55056-423-4. Frank W. Anderson (2008) The Robert Cook Murder Case, Gopher Books, ISBN 9780921969204; Betty Jane Hegerat (2011) The Boy, Oolichan Books, ISBN 9780889822757