Ronald Smith

Challenge to protocol means Albertan could die of old age before constitutionality of capital punishment is decided

Canadian murderer Ronald Allen Smith is entitled to the benefit of a written, objective government policy concerning his situation

The Scene. “Mr. Speaker,” Chuck Strahl said the other day, scolding Todd Russell, the typically loud Liberal from Labrador, “there is that old saying on the preacher’s note, ‘unsure of point, must yell louder.’”

Federal judge Robert Barnes rebukes the government’s policy toward Canadians facing the death penalty in other countries.