It was supposed to be a GOTCHA! to warm the woke hearts of the Annex and the faculty lounge.
Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford told the London Police Service gala on Jan. 29 that when it came to home invaders: “I’d send ‘em right to sparky.”
It was a wink and a nod to the death penalty.
For over 20 years, Randy Workman was the man who walked people to their death.
As a senior corrections officer in the state of Oklahoma, he personally participated in 32 executions in various roles, including escorting prisoners, selecting executioners and sourcing lethal injection drugs.
“You could tell the moment they expired. You watch enough of them, you can just tell immediately they were gone,” he told the BBC.
Lucy Letby this week became only the third woman alive to be handed a whole-life jail term after being sentenced for murdering seven babies and trying to kill another six. But for an outraged British public it seems that sentence is not enough. A new poll for The Spectator by Redfield & Wilton show that 66 per cent of them favour the death penalty as just punishment. Polling of 1,500 people was conducted on Wednesday.
A majority of Canadians support bringing back the death penalty in a slight increase from the same time last year, according to a new poll.
Survey results released Friday from public opinion research firm Research Co., found 54 per cent of Canadian respondents favoured reinstating capital punishment for murder convictions, with more than 70 per cent of Conservative voters being in favour.
According to Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., support for capital punishment rose three per cent from last year, after three years of remaining “stagnant.”
Guess which squeaky wheel will get the grease:
When Bolden was sentenced to die, the jury didn’t know he was a Canadian citizen. The Canadian government was also unaware that one of its citizens faced the death penalty.
