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Bill: Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Liberal Alliance
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2037
Description[?]:
| The Death Penalty is contrary to human rights and us unecessary in the modern world. Therefore, it is to be abolished and replaced with life imprisonment for all crimes which currently carry it as a penalty. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Current: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | Yes what happens when a mistake is made the dead have no way back a living human can be rehabilitated |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | The RDS is completely oppossed to the death penalty and supports this bill without hesitation. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | You cannot unpunish somebody after putting them in prison either. |
| Date | not recorded | From | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | What happened to the principle that the punishment should be proportional to the crime? We hardly have too little murders and massacres, so I can't see why we should have less punishments for murders and crimes against humanity. This bill is strongly opposed. |
| Date | not recorded | From | Liberal Party of Telamon | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | the death penalty ensures that the offender will re offend, and dont say that doesnt happen because it does |
| Date | not recorded | From | Partiya Nacionalnogo Progressa | To | Debating the Capital Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Act |
| Message | I think all-life prison is sufficient punishment to bad guys. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 96 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 1 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Cabinet ministers who disagree seriously with the head of government would usually be expected to resign. Parties within the cabinet may attempt to manoeuvre to replace the head of government though, for example by proposing a new cabinet bill or voting for an early election. |
| Random quote: "The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." - Henry Kissinger |