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The Saskatchewan farmer who became a controversial national figure after what he claimed was the 1993 mercy killing of his severely disabled 12-year-old daughter, Robert Latimer wants to be pardoned.

The now-65-year-old was twice tried for murdering Tracey — he placed her in the cab of his pickup truck and ran a hose from the exhaust pipe, igniting a passionate countrywide debate about the rights of those suffering severe, disabling conditions unable to communicate.

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Latimer said he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice and on Wednesday asked federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould to use her powers under the Criminal Code to review his case and pardon him pursuant to the Royal Prerogative of Mercy.

His daughter was racked by incurable cerebral palsy because of oxygen deprivation due to faulty hospital equipment at birth — a bedridden quadriplegic with the mind of an infant, metal rods in her spine, subject to seizures five or six times a day, facing more disfiguring surgery.