Signing On to the Second Protocol

Published October 13, 2004

Human rights activists are praising Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew for sending a strong signal that this government intends to sign an international protocol against the death penalty. Speaking at the closing ceremonies of the Second Annual World Congress Against the Death Penalty in Montreal on Oct. 8, he said it was absurd that Canada banned capital punishment in 1976, but has not yet ratified an international...