I think the Canadians should send him back to face the consequences of his actions. Americans voted for the death penalty for murder in the state where the crime was committed, so who are the Canadians to overule that?

Incidentally, if it was ever put to a vote in the UK it would be pretty likely that the death penalty would be returned, but the main political parties are too squeamish about the issue.

Since it was abolished in the 1960s the murder rate here has soared and 'life sentences' mean 12 years or so in many cases. So out (in my view) a misguided sense of humanity the lives of hundreds or thousands of murderers have been saved, but at the cost of the lives of the innocent.

It's all very well saying "all killing is wrong", but when the actual result is more innocent people are killed to save the lives of murderers it can't be right.

The old saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" comes to mind.