Canada Ping!
Posted on 01/15/2013 8:34:19 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
A Cape Breton teenager found guilty of second-degree murder for stabbing his girlfriend more than 100 times has been sentenced as an adult to life in prison.
Melvin Skeete Jr., who was 16 years old at the time of the incident, was sentenced Monday in Nova Scotia Youth Court to life in prison with no chance of parole until Dec. 3, 2017.
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100 times, they say?
Sounds like the work of a sentient automatic assault-knife!
Normally, second-degree murder convictions result in a mandatory life sentence, with the possibility of parole after 10-25 years, depending on the sentence. (Note that this is a possible, parole—by no means a guarantee that the convict won't spend the rest of his life behind bars.)
The rules differ for those who are convicted before they turn 18. I assume this is one of those. Still seems ridiculously low, though.
The French in Canada had African slaves in the 1600s and 1700s before England took over in the 1760s...
There were many black Loyalists during the American Revolution...
escaped slaves etc..and slaves who accompanied their Loyalist masters when they fled into Canada...
They were given their freedom by the British when they went to Canada if they had fought on the British side...
also the Underground Railway ended in Niagara and then the former slaves went elsewhere to hide from the bounty hunters coming North to find them...
There are quite a few black Canadians...
Canada Ping!
There was another large influx of blacks when Upper Canada (now Ontario) banned the slave trade in 1791. The rest of the British Empire banned slavery in 1837.
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