Does Canada still employ an executioner

[kenrock]

in canada capital punishment was abollished in the 1970s. since such time i have heard the government still pays and retains a person with the title of Executioner. I would like confirmation of this an if possible this Executioners salary, which is a waste of more government funds.

[kempie]

The Canadian Government may well have needed to retain an executioner until 1999 because although capital punishment was abolished from the Canadian Criminal Code in 1976 and replaced with a mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole for 25 years for all first-degree murders, Canada retained the death penalty for a number of military offenses, including treason and mutiny, until 10th December 1998.

I do not know if the position still exists.