You are right, I think, that there is no more death penalty in Canada! Unfortunately! So now, criminals run freely more and more killing even children and they get away with it, since they are in a gang or sell drugs, or are foreign born or Canada-born but of muslim, hindoo, etc, so-called religions which prefers violence and robbing instead of being peaceful as some radicals do not want peace !
It seems to me that the law made an exception, that you would maybe or will be hanged if you murdered a policeman on duty or something like that ! That was said in order to pass more freely that law, but no one was hanged since, unfortunarely !
But one policeman was killed on duty something like 5 years ago and the killer is now out on the streets, I think, I read because the murderer wanted his probation lately.
For career murderers, why not hang them ?