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Bill: Criminal Justice 2442
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Communist 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: July 2443
Description[?]:
| Given that we, as a nation, have a functioning and effective prison system; Given that we, as a society, value the application of justice over vengeance; Given that we, as a people, recognise the irrevocable value of human life; The United Majatran Republic of Socialist Al'Badara hereby renounces the use of capital punishment by any means and under any circumstances. |
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 | 08:52:19, August 16, 2007 CET | From |  People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | On the basis that our justice system should maintain the moral highground, and in view of the fact that there is no humane or moral way for a state to execute its citizens, the Progressive Socialist Party submits this bill for discussion. |
| Date | 17:39:45, August 16, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | Democracy Now! fully supports and has tried to push this bill ahead several times. Here's hoping it finally passes. |
| Date | 18:10:20, August 16, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | The PM is in general against the idea of handing out capital punishment, and has therefore been extremely careful to instruct the judicial system to not hand it out easily. Capital punishment against acts of national terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind is necessary due to several historical facts, mainly to provide a ground to deal with the genocide conducted by the radical christian/jewish and non-arabic citizens against the Arabs. Make no mistake that the Civil War was caused after an intifada made by the Arabic population of Al'Badara since they were being slaughtered and raided by governmental fundamentalists. We are reluctant when it comes to supporting this bill due to those facts, but we are in general against the idea of capital punishment. |
| Date | 18:28:46, August 16, 2007 CET | From | People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | The PSP maintains that the state should seek to keep the moral highground, even in the face of such heinous crimes. If the PM is not satisfied that our existing prison system could adequately deal with these crimes, then perhaps the nation should examine further penal reform instead of defaulting to state executions? |
| Date | 21:39:46, August 16, 2007 CET | From | People's Mujaheddin | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | The PM would want to change a whole lot but the "choices" are rather limited so this is really the "next best thing". Our existing penal system is based on rehabilitating the very few who end up in social despair. Due to the high living standard and excessive freedom, our citizens have no real ground to commit "crimes". This law is merely a way of giving us an option to deal with enemies of the state. |
| Date | 00:48:54, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | This is totally unacceptable. The Death Penalty needs its restrictions lacked. Homosexuals should be rightly prosecuted and out to death. If we do not put a stop to the homosexual problem our country will burn. |
| Date | 00:53:02, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Al'Badara Republican Party | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | ACAP supports the death penalty for *ONLY* 1st degree murder, rape of a child and high treason when there is undeniable proof and all appeals exhausted, we will not support the abolishment of capital punishment. |
| Date | 02:08:35, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | Award for most open minded and intelligent party in Al'Badara goes to the Christian Nationalist Front. The full scale execution of people for living differently from how they like to live? Well now that is just a great idea! No one can reject your idiotic, backwoods, inbred politics if you kill all the people who disagree with them. Like that one stupid "free-thinker" hippy! What was his name? Oh damn. Anyway here is some of the stupid stuff he said: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven" "I say unto you, Love your enemies." "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." "You have heard that it was said, "Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth." But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles." What dumb plague on his nation said that. Send him to solitary confinement and FORCE HIM TO THINK LIKE US! And if he does not, EXECUTE HIM! Maybe some nails in his hands and legs? Not sure what to nail them to. I'll get back to you. (OOC: Sorry for hijacking this bill but the CNF angers me so much) |
| Date | 02:39:17, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Christian Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | Homosexuality is a death penalty regardless of whether it is state organized or not. AIDS run rampant through the homosexuals!! - and then thanks to the disease that is Homosexuality - our health system has to covers the burdon of supporting and caring for these fundamentally wrong people. We can not allow this to happen, the are a scab on humanity |
| Date | 15:30:16, August 17, 2007 CET | From | Enlightened Cosmic Brotherhood | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | DN! loves that the Homophobic Nationalist Front ignores any allegations that it is not Christian (which it isn't) and instead pumps out more anti-homosexual propaganda. The Health Care system only cares for one kind of fundamentally wrong people, and they belong to the HNF. |
| Date | 20:09:02, August 17, 2007 CET | From | People's Communist Party | To | Debating the Criminal Justice 2442 |
| Message | The PSP doesn't know what sort of goons are in the upper echelons of the CNF, but they make very little sense. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 26 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 54 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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