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Supreme Court of Canada unanimously strikes down life without parole for mass murderers

Summary by Ground News
Canada's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision to speed up the parole eligibility for the man convicted of gunning down six people in a mosque in 2017. The matter at dispute was a 2011 law that allowed judges to bar convicts from applying for parole for multiple 25-year periods. The Supreme Court said that such a punishment removes a realistic possibility of parole and is "incompatible with human dignity"

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Le Devoir broke the news in Montreal, Canada on Friday, May 27, 2022.
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