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Bill: Death Penalty Abolition Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
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: August 2483
Description[?]:
| An act to abolish the death penalty for any and all crimes. 1 Application This act applies to the each of the branches of government. 2 Commencement This act shall come into force immediately upon assent by the Great Chieftain, and shall apply retrospectively. 3 Interpretation For the purposes of this act, _"Death penalty" includes any punishment which includes as a likely consequence deprivation of life. 4 Abolition No person shall be subject to the death penalty for any act or omission. |
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 | 01:06:44, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | The right to life is the supreme human right, and we should not violate it lightly. In applying the death penalty, there is always a chance that we have convicted an innocent person. This would be a terrible injustice. |
| Date | 05:13:27, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Need we say our position? |
| Date | 05:22:01, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Your party opposes this bill for whatever reason your party opposes most human rights. |
| Date | 05:45:38, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | actually that's not true. We support the measure for what it is currently. |
| Date | 08:29:59, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | And so what if a few innocent people are accidentally put to death on the way? |
| Date | 13:35:53, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Flemish Liberation Front | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | our party will not lose any sleep over anyone being executed. we oppose this act |
| Date | 15:53:53, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Terrorism, crimes against humanity, and treason. Those are the only exceptions to for the death penalty. All other crimes will not get the death penalty. We are not talking about Murder in the first degree here. |
| Date | 22:39:06, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Is it not better than the person be made to pay for their crime through hard labour? Putting them to death can only strengthen the cause of terrorists. Crimes against humanity usually comprises mass murder: is it right for us to say "you may not kill" while putting them to death? Those who commit treason may be more use alive. |
| Date | 23:45:09, November 07, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Question number 1: No Question number 2: yes |
| Date | 00:11:50, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | That is hypocrisy. |
| Date | 00:15:21, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | politics is all about hypocracy :D |
| Date | 01:26:05, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Red Hammer Council | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | We support! |
| Date | 03:12:28, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | The Rightist Party calls the question. |
| Date | 13:05:37, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Abolition Act |
| Message | Well good for you. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 215 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 174 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 110 |
| Random fact: Unless otherwise stated, monarchs and their royal houses will be presumed to be owned by the player who introduced the bill appointing them to their position. |
| Random quote: "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson |