Book Reviews : The Trial of Steven Truscott Isabel LeBourdais Gollancz 32s. 6d

‘Sadists and Softies:’ Gender and the Abolition of the Death Penalty in Canada

“…In the meantime, "Steven Truscott has lost several years of his life in a penitentiary and we can only be glad that his youth saved him from losing it altogether in a country where the irrevocable penalty may still apply." 57 LeBourdais' views on corporal and capital punishment met with strong resistance from retentionists. Following a letter that she wrote for the Toronto Daily Star on the problems with corporal punishment, a man replied, "a far better and certainly more meaningful title for Isabel LeBourdais' letter of Jan 15 on lashing would have been "Sentimental Isabel Strikes out again."…”