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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 ]
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.
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 ...
Arthur Lucas (1962) – Hanging. Lucas was one of the last two men to be executed in Canada. He was almost completely decapitated due to the executioner miscalculating his weight. Julián Grimau (1963) – Firing squad. The soldiers conducting the firing squad were nervous and botched the execution. [28] Maru Sira (1975) – Hanging.
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.
Harry Cline (died 1902), U.S. Army soldier who shot four small Filipino boys, killing one, who were gathering grass during the Philippine–American War, executed by hanging John E. Day Jr. (died 1959), U.S. private who shot and killed a civilian during the Korean War , executed [ 204 ]
A total of 26 Canadian soldiers were executed for military offences during the two world wars. 25 occurred during World War I for charges such as desertion or cowardice: 23 were posthumously pardoned on 16 August 2006, while the remaining two men were executed for murder and would have been executed under civilian law.
Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal (1 June 1962) Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin, murderers, executed side by side in the last executions performed in Canada (11 December 1962) Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, murderers of the Clutter family (14 April 1965)