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Sentencing Intimate Femicide: A Comment On R. V. Doyle, Teresa Scassa
Sentencing Intimate Femicide: A Comment On R. V. Doyle, Teresa Scassa
Dalhousie Law Journal
In August of 1989, Donald Michael Doyle murdered his wife of fifteen years by firing three shots into her chest while she slept. He was charged with first degree murder, and pleaded guilty to second degree murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without eligibility for parole until after the statutory minimum of ten years. The Crown appealed the sentencing decision of the trial judge, and argued for a greater period of parole ineligibility. The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal allowed the appeal and raised the period of imprisonment without parole to seventeen years. The differences between the sentencing decisions …
The Trials Of Israel Lipski, Paul Thomas
The Trials Of Israel Lipski, Paul Thomas
Dalhousie Law Journal
On June 28th 1887 in the East End of London a particularly dreadful murder took place. A woman was struck on the head and nitric acid poured down her throat as she lay in bed. Israel Lipski was found under the women's bed with some traces of nitre acid around his mouth but to no great ill effect. Both the victim and Lipski were in a room that had been locked from the inside. The room's two windows were impossible to open. Was Lipski guilty of murdering this women?