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TIL the last 2 executions in Canada were on Dec. 11, 1962: US-born Arthur Lucas, convicted of killing a drug dealer and believed to have killed the victim's girlfriend, and Ronald Turpin for the unrelated killing of a police officer. Lucas was nearly decapitated by a botched hanging.

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