Death penalty – Blazingcatfur

For Canada, death penalty question risks complicating Ryan Wedding case

American prosecutors are not saying whether they will seek the death penalty for Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder accused of being a cocaine kingpin, if he is convicted of drug trafficking and murder conspiracy.

That uncertainty could stoke tensions between the U.S. and Canada, which outlawed capital punishment in 1976. Since 1999, the last time a Canadian citizen was executed in the United States, Canadian courts have directed cabinet ministers, diplomats and law-enforcement officials to take steps to try to prevent the execution of Canadians on death row.

by Blazingcatfur•February 3, 2026February 2, 2026•0•Canada, Crime, Death penalty, USA

Sex offender charged in attack on Welland, Ont., toddler denied transfer to women’s jail

Ontario corrections officials have denied a request to transfer registered child sex offender Daniel Senecal to a women’s jail as the 25-year-old awaits a bail hearing in another case, this one involving an attack on a girl in Welland.

Senecal was released earlier this year after serving time for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old in the Niagara Region city. The latest charges involve a three-year-old over the Labour Day weekend. Niagara police said the girl was sexually assaulted after someone broke into the family home.

Are lynching’s always a bad thing?

by Blazingcatfur•September 13, 2025September 13, 2025•0•Death penalty

Barbara Kay: Bring back the death penalty — MAID for murderers

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.

by Blazingcatfur•August 20, 2023August 20, 2023•0•Death penalty, MAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

A third of U.S. executions went wrong in 2022, watchdog says

Seven botched executions, the emptying of Oregon’s death row and the increasing isolation of the death penalty to just a handful of states marked a tumultuous year for capital punishment in America, where the number of executions, death sentences and public support for the practice continued a decade-long decline.

by Blazingcatfur•December 16, 2022December 16, 2022•0•Death penalty

Supreme Court reinstates death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty sentence imposed on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, reversing a lower federal appeals court ruling that had voided that punishment.

In its 6-3 ruling, the high court rejected arguments by Tsarnaev’s lawyers that his trial judge erred in barring certain questions to prospective jurors, and in blocking evidence of his brother Tamerlan’s role in a prior triple murder.

by Sarcasticat•March 5, 2022March 4, 2022•0•Death penalty, Supreme Court, terrorism, Terrorism - Domestic