Justice was served to the 11 victims in Pittsburgh’s 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre when, earlier this month, a federal jury recommended the death penalty for its perpetrator, Robert Bowers. Justice, that is, in my opinion. I’m not alone. Polls indicate that half the population favours the death penalty. But since capital punishment in Canada was retired once and for all in 1998, there’s no impetus for further public discussion here, as there is in the United States.
