the youngest Canadian ever to face execution is receiving...

the youngest Canadian ever to face execution is receiving C$6.5 million (US$8.5 million) in compensation nearly five decades after being wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of a schoolmate. Steven Truscott was sentenced to hang when he was 14 years old after being convicted of killing 12-year-old Lynne Harper in 1959. His death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. Ontario's top court declared Truscott a victim of a miscarriage of justice in August, 2007, and acquitted him. The court heard evidence that the original autopsy conclusions allowed for a time of death much later than cited by the prosecution, perhaps a day later - when Truscott was in school.