TORONTO, Jan 13 (LifeSiteNews.com) An Angus Reid poll on mercy-killing commissioned by The Globe and Mail and CTV last month found that seventy-three per cent of Canadians believe Robert Latimer, who killed his 12-year-old disabled daughter by gassing her to death, received too harsh a penalty (10 years without parole) for the murder.
While the poll has been criticized for biased wording, it remains chilling to note that 41 per cent of the 1,501 respondents to the telephone poll believed mercy killing should be made “legal in appropriate circumstances.” Another 38 per cent said that mercy killing should remain illegal but “Those who do it treated with leniency and compassion;” only 17 per cent said it should be “treated like any other murder.”