Robert Latimer paroled
February 27th, 2008From CTV, [Toronto] Globe and Mail:
Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer convicted of killing his severely disabled daughter in 1993, has been granted day parole.
Latimer has maintained his daughter’s death was a mercy killing, saying her condition had caused her constant pain and discomfort.
… The National Parole Board refused to give Latimer day parole in a hearing last December, after he again refused to admit any guilt in the killing. But that decision has been overturned by the National Parole Board Appeal Division.
… Jim Derksen, of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, warned that the decision to grant Latimer parole could give the impression that his act was sanctioned by the justice system.
Latimer’s daughter Tracy, who had cerebral palsy, was 12 years old when her father gassed her to death with carbon monoxide in his truck on the family’s farm in Saskatchewan in 1993.
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