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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 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 ...
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.
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 ...
hanging: C Belize: 19 June 1985 [4] Kent Bowers: murder: hanging: A Bermuda: 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 ...
People executed by Canada by hanging (1 C, 31 P) L. People executed by Lower Canada (4 P) N. ... This page was last edited on 16 September 2020, at 01:11 (UTC).
This is a list of films produced and co-produced in Quebec, Canada ordered by year of release. Although the majority of Quebec films are produced in French due to Quebec's predominantly francophone population, a number of English language films are also produced in the province.