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Bill: Capital Punishment Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Drtárék Jelbék Prta
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: February 2438
Description[?]:
| It is important to ensure that punishment is fair and appropriate, therefore we propose a reintroduction of capital punishment for capital crimes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: The death penalty is applied to most minor and all major criminal offences.
Proposed: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:32:04, July 30, 2007 CET | From |  Parti Communiste de Jelbania | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | We hope this law will never pass in Jelbania, we don't want to go back to the middle ages. We strongly oppose. |
| Date | 14:17:58, July 30, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Strongly oppose - CCU believes in creating a respect for life within our society and that includes government-mandated murder. |
| Date | 17:49:23, July 30, 2007 CET | From | Bloc Militaire pour Restauration | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | we strongly oppose, btw it's very odd that this option is available since Jelbania has ratified the protocol against the death penalty. It seems like that only the options of the last treaty The Charter of International Liberties determines the availability of the options, because this Charter allows the death penalty. We will consider to propose to withdraw from this charter |
| Date | 20:09:36, July 30, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | JCP, Communism proposes a return to a more ancient form of life, than of communal society, in which appropriate punishment is necessary to ensure the community doesn't break down. What is more appropriate than executing murderers? CCU, the whole point of the government is that it has a monopoly over the use of force within a society. If the government will not use this monopoly, but instead hands it over to the common criminal, then what is the point of the government? |
| Date | 23:44:59, July 30, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | It appears as though our parties have different thoughts on "the whole point of government." |
| Date | 03:18:46, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Yes, and one has the wrong thought. |
| Date | 05:57:56, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | CCU leaves decisions on life and death to a higher authority. We mortals should not deal with these matters. |
| Date | 12:26:46, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Even though the Bible gives us permission to do so? |
| Date | 18:02:49, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Centre Démocratique | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | The Bible says we can do a lot of things that we should not do. Take a look at Leviticus. Do you follow all those guidelines? Anyway, the point is we will never support government-mandated murder. |
| Date | 11:29:44, August 01, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Even war? |
| Date | 13:27:45, August 02, 2007 CET | From | orgonic party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Fortunately, he holy bible has nothing to do with the legislation in a secular state. History of mankind leads one-way to human rights, despite some people represent the eternal trend to reverse the motion. Death penalty is cruel, archaic and above all, useless. Of course, we strongly oppose |
| Date | 13:41:28, August 02, 2007 CET | From | Drtárék Jelbék Prta | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | That is nonsense. How can something not have anything to do with secular law? Anything can be used as an influence on law making. The death penalty is not cruel, nor is it archaic and it certainly isn't useless, in fact it is by far and away the most effective form of punishment, no where near as futile as locking a man up for life. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 501 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority." - Ralph W. Sockman |