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Bill: Death Penalty Bill of 2748
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Restoration 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: May 2752
Description[?]:
| The Orange Party proposes the abolishment of the death penalty as it can lead to innocent deaths, and is more costly to the government that interning the prisoner for life. |
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 | 11:14:09, April 30, 2009 CET | From | Popular Socialist Liberation Movement | To | Debating the Death Penalty Bill of 2748 |
| Message | We fully support this legislation. |
| Date | 15:54:50, April 30, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Bill of 2748 |
| Message | We oppose - we believe that the death penalty is an appropriate retributive punishment for extreme crimes, and is the only punishment commensurate to crimes of the nature described. We support the status quo, and, in fact, we would prefer to see the current policy taken further rather than being repealed. |
| Date | 21:03:28, April 30, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Bill of 2748 |
| Message | The RSDP fully agrees with this legislative proposal. RHP, the Commonwealth of Rutania must not involve itself with only retributive forms of punishment and justice. There most be a greater emphasis on restorative justice, allowing criminals to choose from a plethora of restorative options while in prison as opposed to taking their lives, no matter how heinous. Being a criminal does not decide the identity of the individual and justify the removal of inalienable rights. The value of human life is not a circumstantial reality. The RSDP fully supports this proposed legislation and plans to vote for it in the future. We applaud the OP for its proposal! Luke D. Taylor, President of the RSDP |
| Date | 22:03:23, April 30, 2009 CET | From | United Progressive Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Bill of 2748 |
| Message | The United Progressive Party is compelled to agree with the Rutanian Heritage Party. If those that subject others to the horror of death, are not punished accordingly, then it simply shows a message that the Rutanian Justice Department is unwilling to carry out swift and efficient punishment. |
| Date | 03:49:07, May 01, 2009 CET | From | Rutanian Heritage Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Bill of 2748 |
| Message | In response to the arguments of the 'RSDP': We do not subscribe to the fallacy of 'restorative justice'. Criminals who would commit such atrocities as rape, murder, pedophilia or terrorism are well and truly beyond redemption, and there is no 'peaceful' means by which they can adequately compensate for these acts. At the core of human nature is a compulsion to restore order through the retributive punishment of those who have wronged individuals and society - to put it unromantically, by deeply-embedded human instinct, those who have caused harm should themselves be harmed in an appropriate and commensurate manner. There is a great deal of truth to the biblical expression, 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 117 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 178 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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