Key point 1 of Canada coverage

Biden pardoned 37 but left 3 facing execution: Tsarnaev, Bowers, Roof -- the 'untouchables'

Key point 2 of Canada coverage

Only one state (South Carolina) has recently used firing squads, electrocution unused since 2020

Key point 3 of Canada coverage

UN denounces nitrogen hypoxia as cruel and inhumane -- two states have already used it

CANADA PERSPECTIVE

FIRING SQUADS, ELECTRIC CHAIRS AND GAS CHAMBERS: WASHINGTON RESURRECTS 19TH-CENTURY EXECUTION METHODS

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DOMINANT ANGLE

Ottawa notes that even Biden refused to pardon Tsarnaev, Bowers and Roof -- reality complicates the simple narrative

Dominant angle identified — does not reflect unanimity of this country’s media

ANALYSIS

The National Post delivers the most factual and comprehensive anglophone coverage, with a detail others miss: the names of the three death row inmates Biden did NOT pardon. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Robert Bowers and Dylann Roof are the three men even an anti-death-penalty president deemed too dangerous to spare. It's a raw fact that complicates the simplistic 'Biden = clemency, Trump = brutality' narrative.

The National Post notes that five US states already authorize firing squads but only one -- South Carolina -- has used the method recently. Nine states allow electrocution, but the method hasn't been used since 2020. Two states have executed inmates by nitrogen hypoxia, a method denounced by UN experts as cruel and inhumane.

For Canada, which abolished capital punishment in 1976 and shares the world's longest undefended border with the US, the decision is an uncomfortable reminder of the ideological distance between two countries bound by geography. The National Post quotes Todd Blanche accusing the Biden administration of 'failing to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment.' The language belongs to America's culture wars, not criminal justice -- and Canada knows it.

KEY POINTS

Biden pardoned 37 but left 3 facing execution: Tsarnaev, Bowers, Roof -- the 'untouchables'
Only one state (South Carolina) has recently used firing squads, electrocution unused since 2020
UN denounces nitrogen hypoxia as cruel and inhumane -- two states have already used it

COGNITIVE BIASES IDENTIFIED

Canada's abolitionism since 1976 colors its reading of the American decision with implicit moral judgment

Detail on the 3 unpardoned complicates the narrative but doesn't change Trump's political trajectory

'Culture wars' framing delegitimizes the American public safety debate

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National Post

MEDIUM

U.S. Justice Department wants to add firing squads, electrocution and gas as methods for federal executions

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