Graphic: The death penalty around the world

Death by hanging was the penalty for murder in Canada between 1892 and 1961. In 1966, the government passed a bill that limited capital punishment
to the killing of on-duty police officers and prison guards. In 1976, the House of Commons abolished capital punishment and replaced it with a
mandatory life sentence of 25 years for those convicted of first-degree murder. Here is how the rest of the planet punishes capital crimes.

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