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Archive For Entries On Burns and Rafay (2001)

Burns and Rafay revisited: Why the federal policy shift on doomed Canadians violates the spirit of what the Supreme Court said

The recent announcement that the Canadian government will no longer seek clemency for Canadian citizens sentenced to death in the United States and elsewhere is deeply troubling. It leaves Canada as the only nation to have abolished the death penalty that will not seek clemency when its citizens face execution in the United States. It [...]