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People executed by Canada or Canadian authorities. For people of Canadian nationality who were executed, see Category:Executed Canadian people. Subcategories.
The last execution in Canada was the double hanging of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin on December 11, 1962, at Toronto's Don Jail. The National Defence Act prescribed the death penalty for certain military offences until 1999, although no military executions had been carried out since 1946.
During the war, 25 Canadian soldiers were executed for purely military offences. Excluding the two who were found guilty of murder, Veteran Affairs Minister Ron Duhamel announced on December 11, 2001 that executed soldiers would have their names added to Canada's Books of Remembrance housed in Parliament Hill.
Raymond Lisenba (1942) last execution by hanging in California; Clayton Lockett (2014) Howard Long (1939) last execution in New Hampshire; Theerasak Longji (2018) most recent execution in Thailand; Johannes Lötter (1901) Arthur Lucas (1962) one of the last two executions in Canada; Daryl Mack (2006) most recent execution in Nevada; Patrick ...
For people who were executed by Canada, see Category:People executed by Canada. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. A.
This is a list of events in Canada and its predecessors that are commonly characterized as massacres. Massacre is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers"; it also states that the term is used "in the names of certain massacres of history".
People executed in British North America by hanging (12 P) Pages in category "People executed by Canada by hanging" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total.
Louis Riel, executed for leading the Métis in the North-West Rebellion against Canada's expansion into the west. Kanao Inouye, Kamloops-born sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, executed for killing eight Canadian prisoners of war captured at the Battle of Hong Kong.