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CALGARY, Alberta - After 30 years of silence while Ronald Allen Smith sat on death row in Montana, his family is finally speaking out with an impassioned plea that his life be spared.

Nearly 30 years after Canadian Ronald Allen Smith murdered two men in Montana, he still waits to learn his fate. The Montana parole board held a clemency hearing earlier this month after Smith ...

Ronald Smith from Red Deer, Alta., was convicted of killing two men on the side of a Montana highway in 1982. (Bill Graveland/The Canadian Press) Social Sharing ...

Growing up in Calgary, at a young age Smith knew he wanted to pursue his dream of playing in the NHL and quickly established himself as a name to watch for as he progressed through each age group.

Ron Smith, intellectual and everyman hero, will never be replaced. His manifest excellence is dominant even after he has left us. Even today we are asked about the crazy politics and political ...

Ronald Smith's father still had a bedroom and a vintage car waiting for the day his son might come home to Alberta from the Montana prison where he has been on death row for 35 years.

The 60-year-old double killer has been on death row in Montana since 1983. We shed no tears over that. But it’s come to light the Canadian government reached out to Montana Gov. Steve Bullock ...

CALGARY—A man who was convicted along with Ronald Smith in the murder of two Montana men 30 years ago says his former partner-in-crime saved his life and deserves to live. Rodney Munro, in an ...

CALGARY, Alberta – A man who was convicted along with Ronald Smith in the murder of two Montana men 30 years ago says his former partner-in-crime saved his life and ...

It didn't get much more Calgary than The Buck Shot Show. At least a couple of generations of Calgarians grew up watching Ron "Buck Shot" Barge and his sidekick, Benny the Bear, on TV for 30 years.

CALGARY - Lawyers for the only Canadian on death row in the United States concede their client committed a "terrible offence" when he murdered two young Montana men 30 years ago, but say he doesn ...