The practice of execution in Canada / Ken Leyton-Brown.

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"This fascinating work takes us from a dramatic account of the public execution of Claude Ruel on July 1.1868 in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, to the double hanging of Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin in Toronto's Don Jail on December 11, 1962. Just as that jail had gradually evolved from an example of mid-V...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leyton-Brown, Kenneth B.
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Executions and executioners > Canada > History.
Executions and executioners > Social aspects > Canada.
Capital punishment > Canada > History.
Physical Description:ix, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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