The court ruled that a federal law effectively authorizing life imprisonment without parole is unconstitutional and violates protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
The Supreme Court said its declaration of invalidity is retroactive to the date the 2011 law was enacted, meaning those who have been sentenced under the statute can now seek relief. They include the man who killed three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in 2014 and was sentenced to life without parole for 75 years.from the Sentencing Project, which found that 83 percent of people serving life without parole in the world are in U.S. prisons.
Bissonnette, armed with a semiautomatic weapon and a pistol, opened fire on 46 people gathered for evening prayers at a Quebec City mosque in January 2017, killing half a dozen and severely injuring others.At his trial, prosecutors claimed that Bissonnette’s attack was premeditated. They alleged that he had spent time online researching the Ku Klux Klan, other mass shootings and their perpetrators and had frequently checked the Twitter accounts of conspiracy theorists and far-right figures.
“Canada,” Huot wrote, “is not a country where we lock up the most undesirable elements of society in a dungeon, toss the key to their freedom into the wide river of collective indifference and then forget about their very existence.” In legal filings, several of the parties granted intervenor status — similar to “friend of the court” status in U.S. courts — contended that before the 2011 law, people convicted of multiple murders were effectively given a “free pass” or sentencing “discount” for each additional murder.
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