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Bill: Death Penalty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Revolutionary Front
Status[?]: defeated
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: March 2434
Description[?]:
| An act to prohibit the death penalty in all cases. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
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 | 19:43:42, July 24, 2007 CET | From | Alderdath Rabrati Konciralati Erradikati | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | You're taking away an essential part of the legal system! We fail to see why terrorists and traitors should be coddled. |
| Date | 03:04:11, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | How is not killing someone coddling? It is the high of hypocrisy for the state to say "thou shalt not kill -- except when we do it, it's okay!" A very disappointing result. |
| Date | 08:27:10, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | Our reasoning: Terrorists: you deliberately attack our citizens. If we catch you, you will die. Treason: we believe there is no higher crime than turning your back on your country. crimes against mankind: Because life in prison isn't good enough. |
| Date | 21:49:58, July 25, 2007 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | That still does not account for the hypocrisy of saying that it shall not be allowed to murder another human being, unless it is the state that is doing the murdering. What does the crime matter, when we are simply sinking to their level? |
| Date | 22:32:56, July 26, 2007 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | Sinking to their level would be killing them, and then finding their home town and bombing it to the ground (in the case of terrorists and those who commit crimes against humanity) Would you have a problem with putting someone like Hitler to death? "He may have orchestrated the genocide of countless millions of people, but we don't want to stoop to his level, so he gets to be a POW the rest of his life." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 165 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 174 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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