On December 10, 1962 Ronald Turpin, 29, was one of the two last people to be executed in the Dominion of Canada.[1] The other prisoner was Arthur Lucas who was executed alongside Turpin at the Toronto (Don) Jail. Turpin had been convicted of the murder of Metropolitan Toronto police officer Frederick Nash. Nash had pulled Turpin over for a broken taillight while the latter was fleeing a robbery.[2] The method of execution was hanging, the only form of capital punishment ever used within the Dominion. In 1976, capital punishment for murder was removed from Canada's Criminal Code, although it could have been used under the National Defence Act until 1998.