The Death Penalty in Canada

The most serious of all sentences is death. This is also the death penalty and requires the law enforcement officer to kill the criminal, so it is the most severe punishment in the court. Our past reminds us that if someone steals from us, we should steal from them, or if someone shouts to us, we should shout to them. But if someone kills someone, we should kill them. Today there is a big controversy over whether the death penalty is helping society, and whether it is morally correct.

Canada Since the death penalty was abolished in Canada in 1976, the crime rate has declined sharply by 27% (Amnesty International, 2012). Since the abolition of the death penalty in Canada, the murder rate has generally declined. Eight people in 100 thousand have become the year of murder rate abolition. In 1995, Canada reached the lowest point in 30 years in 1995, and 8 out of 8 people died in 100,000 people (Warren, 2012). Some Canadian people have already expressed their views and support the recovery of the death penalty, but the Canadian government strongly insists on the abolition of the death penalty. In fact, all Canadian parties oppose the reexecution of the death penalty. In 1987, the House of Representatives submitted a petition to restore the death penalty in Canada, but the bill was rejected (148 - 127) (Warren, 2012). Their disadvantage is that they seek justice based on unethical grounds.

Before Canada was founded in 1867, the call for abolition of death penalty was able to go back for a long time, but the most coordinated efforts abolished in the National Assembly began by the Diet Member Robert Bicdick in the early 20th century It can be said. Numerous prime ministers publicly objected to the fact that it only ended with Stephen Harper, who started the death penalty with John Diffenbacher and officially supported the death penalty. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled in Burns case that it is unconstitutional to expel prisoners Canada faces the death penalty. In 2005, the Canadian government entered into and ratified the Second Optional Protocol to the "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights". Because there is no exit mechanism, this has legally prevented the return of Canada's death penalty.

The possibility of the reintroduction of the death penalty in Canada is negligible, but the support of the death penalty is similar to the support in the United States. The United States regularly executes the death penalty and there are books at most state and federal levels. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the opposite number against the death penalty increased, but Canadians approached the American position in recent years, in 2004 only 48% of Canadians supported deaths of murderers, while 2010 It was 62% in the year. According to opinion polls, Canada's support for the death penalty is almost the same as the support in the United States, and both are 63%. In the Toronto poll 2011 survey, 66% of Canadians support the death penalty, but only 41% are supporting the reintroduction of the death penalty in Canada.