Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan wheat farmer, was recently granted a full parole beginning today: Monday, December 6, 2010.

He was the Canadian convicted of second-degree murder for what he says was the “mercy killing” (to end pain and suffering) of his severely disabled twelve-year-old, forty-pound daughter, Tracey, in 1993. He was convicted in 2001.

(Latimer was released from prison 2 years ago, in Feb 2008, and has, since September, been spending five nights a week at a Victoria halfway house and the other two nights in his Victoria apartment.)

The residents of the community where the death occurred say he has spent his time and paid the price. Do you agree?

Has our society changed over the past ten years with regard to mercy killing, and euthanasia?

Have your thoughts and beliefs changed in that time?

Is the voice of people with disabilities being heard?

What are your thoughts?

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Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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