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Bill: Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Fenner Brockway Socialist 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: January 2115
Description[?]:
| A bill to abolish the death penalty. |
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 | 09:00:09, September 21, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act |
| Message | FBSP believes that the death penalty is immoral. We believe that its effect is to cheapen human life and to lower ourselves to the moral position of the murderers (or suspected murderers). We also believe that any use of the death penalty, even (perhaps especially) for the highest crimes (where so much public emotion is rightly evoked), inevitably risks the execution of the innocent, regardless of what elaborate safeguards are theoretically erected. Support this bill - outlaw capital punishment. |
| Date | 14:54:24, September 21, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act |
| Message | Hear hear! The Progressive Liberals endorse this Bill. |
| Date | 23:54:03, September 21, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act |
| Message | His Grace believes we have an over-population problem in Aldegar. Percy Waterman (Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Aldegar) |
| Date | 04:40:58, September 22, 2005 CET | From | Civil Liberties Party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act |
| Message | When it comes to terrorism, treason and crime against mankind the death penalty should be allowed. We are against this. |
| Date | 08:52:08, September 22, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment (Abolition) Act |
| Message | Treason is an essentially political offence. For example, those Germans who rebelled against fascism were, from a legal point of view, guilty of treason. To take a completely different example, the Rosenbergs were found guilty of treason because they sold US secrets to the Soviet Union. However much you may disagree with their actions, it is outrageous that these actions - motivated by misplaced political idealism - were answered with execution. Re terrorism - it is precisely when we are dealing with terrorism that the highest emotions and the most clouded minds risk destroying justice. For instance, when Britain faced a threat from IRA terrorism, numerous people were convicted who were later found to be innocent. Under a death-penalty system, they would have been executed. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 80 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 183 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 58 |
| Random fact: It is forbidden to impersonate a player or Moderator. |
| Random quote: "There is no other definition of communism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man." - Che Guevara |