Majority Supports Tories On Foreign Executions

The decision was prompted by the case of Ronald Smith, a 50-year-old Albertan who murdered two men in Montana in 1982 and is attempting through U.S. courts to have his death sentence reduced to life imprisonment. Citing the "wrong signal" it would send to Canadians to plead for mercy for convicted killers, the Conservatives said they would no longer attempt to convince the United States or other democratic countries to commute death sentences meted out to Canadians. The government later said it would review such situations on a "case-by-case basis." ... http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=9255967d-20ac-4a4a-a2f7-2c6ce0628784&k=89199

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