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Bill: Death Penalty (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: November 2118
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 | 19:38:10, September 28, 2005 CET | From | Fenner Brockway Socialist Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty (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. We add, in response to arguments made by pro-death parties last time round: 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. In respect to 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. |
| Date | 02:43:43, September 29, 2005 CET | From |  Ducal Delegation | To | Debating the Death Penalty (Abolition) Act |
| Message | His Grace does not think there is anything wrong with executing pheasants. Percy Waterman (First Minister of Aldegar and Personal Secretary to the Grand Duke of Hikirena) |
| Date | 07:30:40, September 29, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty (Abolition) Act |
| Message | Our position on the death penalty has been expressed before, we'll support this motion. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 139 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 182 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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