Can you walk us through what capital punishment looked like in Canada in 1957?

Well, in 1957, we are slowly moving towards the abolition in 1976, but it's still occurring.

In New Brunswick, between 1869 and 1870 to 1957, there were 26 men who were executed.

Canada only relied upon hanging as its method of execution.

But curiously, in 1956, the year before the last execution in this province, there was a report released by a special joint committee of the Senate and the House of Commons that looked at capital punishment and whether it should be retained, whether it should be abolished.

They heard from mainly people who were in favor of retaining capital punishment.

So all the provincial attorneys generals, save for Saskatchewan, either appeared before this special committee or sent in written submissions saying that capital punishment should be retained.

So what kind of guardrails would we have now that weren't there? Well,