The final hours of the last two men executed in Canada

From the archives: At 12:02 AM on Dec. 11, 1962, Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas were hanged in Canada’s last execution. In 1965 Alexander Ross pieced together what happened in the killing room.

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