Quebec’s Court of Appeal says it was unconstitutional to give a 40-year prison sentence to the man who killed six people and critically injured several others in a Quebec City mosque in 2017.
Alexandre Bissonnette was sentenced in 2019 after he pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and six-counts of attempted murder. It was the longest ever handed down in Quebec.
But in a unanimous ruling released Thursday, the appeals court reduced Bissonnette’s sentence to 25 years without the possibility of parole instead.
