The killer of Quebec’s great mosque, who was sentenced to life in prison, can apply for parole after 25 years, but will have to go through a “strict” process, criminal law expert Conrad Lord recalled. .
When it comes to murder, the important thing people remember is not necessarily to release someone after 25 years.explanation to Me Lord in an interview with ICI RDI.
There are examples of people who have tried [d’être libérés] after 25 years and they are still incarcerated.
It is in 2042, when he will be 52 years old, that Alexandre Bissonnette can apply for parole.
However, he had to go through a complicated process, the lawyer pointed out while adding [qu’il] there is a parole process […] which facilitates people so that these people do not regain their freedoms while presenting a danger to society.
The Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP) also made a point of recollection, at a press briefing on Friday morning, that the sentence imposed on Alexandre Bissonnette remains a life sentence.
” If eventually granted parole by the Parole Board of Canada, Alexandre Bissonnette will be subject to strict conditions and the supervision of a parole officer until the end of his life. “
As lawyer Conrad Lord explained, the Canadian justice system is based on rehabilitation rather than revenge.
It is also this principle that is at the heart of the decision passed by the Supreme Court on Friday. This confirms the same confidence and importance that should be given to the Parole Board of Canada, he maintains.
It’s a monster we don’t know abouthe said, but, in principle, it is a system that works well and the Supreme Court, inevitably, [fait] trust.
Dignity
The opportunity to be rehabilitated is an important part of human dignity, the land’s highest court said in its decision on Friday.
Such punishments are modest, and therefore contrary to human dignity, because they remove the offenders of any possibility of social reunification, which is assumed, in a final and irreversible manner, which is not they possess the capacity to adjust their ways. in societycan we read the decision of the Supreme Court.
At this point, the dignity of a human being requires that we look at his evolutionexplanation by Me Jean-Claude Hébert, a lawyer specializing in criminal law, in the program Information at noonat the HERE Premiere.
He added that, in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, We can think of that […] 25 years from now he will no longer be the same as when he committed these crimes.
Source: Radio-Canada
