Nelson Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: [Gibbon, A. W.]
issued: 2024-05-08
issued: 1966-04-09
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0442502/source.json
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note: ■; "- •' ^W^WB FORECAST Kootenay: Mostly cloudy. A few showers in the vicinity of. Cranbrook. Little • change in temperature. Light-winds. Low. and high at Cranbrook 35 and 55; Nelson area 38 and 62. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy. TEMPERATURES NELSON 35 67 - Toronto 29 42 j- Calgary 31 48 - Penticton 32 68 — Vancouver 41 52 Tr Vol. 64 'NELSON, B.C., CANADA—SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1966 10 Cents No. 302 Cabinet in Dilemma On Hanging Decision By RONALD LEBEL OTTAWA (CP)-The cabinet will have to choose next month between approval of the first hanging in 3V4 years or rejection of the majority view of the Commons. This painful dilemma is the legacy of the Commons' free vote on capital punishment Tuesday night, when a proposal to abolish hanging was voted down 143 to 112. The next execution is scheduled for May 18 at the Fort Saskatchewan jail in Alberta, when Lloyd Denis Lyding, 25, is sentenced to die for the murder of his wife. Lyding has been convicted twice of capital murder, the second time by a judge without a jury, and he has lost an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. Fourteen others have been sentenced to hang but all have appeals pending. The cabinet is expected to announce shortly before May 18 whether. Lyding's sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment or allowed to stand. Either choice is bound to be controversial. If the sentence is commuted, proponents of the death penalty inside and outside Parliament will argue, that the cabinet is ignoring the recorded opinion of the House. WILL SEE REVERSAL If Lyding is executed, opponents of capital punishment likely will claim Canada is reversing a 10.year trend and returning to a barbaric and unjust practice. MPs are discovering glumly that after 94 speeches and four votes in a five-day debate, they have failed again to settle the historic issue. The rules prevent Parliament from reopening the debate during the 1966 session. Even the cabinet is split on the issue. Prime Minister Pearson and 17 of his colleagu…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0442502
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Company, Limited
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Nelson Museum, Archives and Gallery: https://nelsonmuseum.ca
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text