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In New Brunswick in the fall of 1922, a convicted double murderer named Benny Swim was hanged for the murder of the woman he loved, his first cousin, all of, and her husband, Harvey Trenton.

Benny didn't die the first time, so he was quickly hanged again. Oh, no.

You are listening to episode 163 twice hanged the life and crimes of Benny Swim.

Poor Benny, but maybe not. We'll find out. Well, Benny did kill a couple of people, Carol, so. That's true. Sorry, I retract that.

Canada has had quite a history with capital punishment, with hanging being the go-to method used to dispatch someone sentence to die.

On July 14, 1976, the Canadian House of Commons passed Bill C-84 on a free vote abolishing capital punishment from the Canadian criminal code and replacing it with mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years for all first-degree murder.

The death penalty was removed from the criminal code in 76 and Canada totally abolished capital punishment in 1998.

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