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Name Countries Official position Later imprisonment Reason Jefferson Davis USA: President of the Confederate States of America (1862–1865) 1865: Treason [174] Oreste Zamor Haiti: President of Haiti (1914) 1915: Illegal entry [175] Élie Lescot Haiti: President of Haiti (1941–1946) 1946: Overthrown [176] Franck Sylvain Haiti: President of ...
Kenneth Law (born 1965) is a Canadian man who was charged with shipping sodium nitrite, a potentially lethal substance, to people intending to kill themselves. He was arrested in May 2023 on two counts of counselling or aiding suicide. [1] He was later charged with 14 counts of first-degree murder. [2]
Date Name (age) of deceased Province or Territory City Police Force Description of Incident 1900-05-21 Two unknown men Ontario Two workmen were killed by police with sabres during a workers' strike. Fifty other people were injured and 103 arrests made. [5] c. 1928 McKee, Carl "Gunner" Manitoba
Name Date of death Nationality Cause of death Known for Comments Pat Hare: 1980-09-26 United States: Lung cancer American electric blues guitarist and singer Richard Chase: 1980-12-26 United States: Suicide Serial killer, cannibal and necrophile; also known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" James Mitose: 1981-03-26 United States: Diabetes
SOMERVILLE - A 60-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with the murder of a former Old Bridge woman whose body was found dumped in Bridgewater 27 years ago.
This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada , all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC).
So far, we've counted more than 800 deaths, but based on federal data, we suspect there have been more. On average, nearly 1,000 people died in jails each year between 2000 and 2013, according to the Department of Justice. Use this page to follow our coverage and find the latest reports citing our data.
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".