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Bill: The Death Penalty
Details
Submitted by[?]: Secular Humanist party
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: December 2442
Description[?]:
| Prison is a terrible thing. People who go jail, rot there. Wasted lives. Accomplishing nothing. As public money is wasted on feeding and clothing them, paying guards and facilities to keep them locked up. Prison leads to anger. A criminal who spends a few years in prison for robbing someone at knifepoint, comes out able to kill most men with his bare hands, thanks to weightlifting equipment, and most will fall straight back into a life of crime, having been toughened and angered by their time in prison. We believe it would be more humane, and efficient to introduce the death penalty. There are those who simply cannot be saved, and by making an examp0le of those, we show lesser criminals the error of their ways. When the price of crime is your life, the number of those willing to risk it drops dramatically. This would allow for far fewer people in or prisons, and less wasting of public money. |
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 illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is applied to most minor and all major criminal offences.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 18:03:54, August 15, 2007 CET | From | Regional Acronym Political Establishment | To | Debating the The Death Penalty |
| Message | Though we find these measures draconian, it may be necessary to send a message to would be criminals. The National Objectivist Party supports this bill, but looks forward to a time when it will no longer be necessary and may be repealed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 229 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 88 |
| Random fact: The people in your nation don't like inactive parties. When you often abstain from voting for a bill, they will dislike your party and your visibility to the electorate will decrease significantly. Low visibility will means you are likely to lose seats. So keep in mind: voting Yes or No is always better than Abstaining. |
| Random quote: "Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato |