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Bill: Death Penalty Vote
Details
Submitted by[?]: Sue's Corner
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: August 2982
Description[?]:
| A free vote for government members on the death penalty issue as it is a conscience decision. The bill is presented by Miss. Jackie Ferguson, the Internal Affairs Secretary |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Current: Religious doctrine determines the death penalty.
Proposed: The death penalty is not applied, except for terrorism, treason and crimes against mankind.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:39:44, August 09, 2010 CET | From |  Sue's Corner | To | Debating the Death Penalty Vote |
| Message | This government is getting tough on serious crimes, and reducing crimes. The last government did nothing on crime despite urgent reform being asked for and being promised. The result? Rising crime, complaining police, devestated victims and happy criminals. It is time we took action as a government on serious issues such as terrorism and treason. We realise this is an issue of moral conscience and therefore the government will be open to a free vote on the issue. We firmly believe the only way we can deter terrorists and treasonists, is by having the death penalty apply to these crimes. It won't stop all of these acts, but it will deter some and this has to be the main thinking. Jackie Ferguson Secretary of State for Internal Affairs |
| Date | 08:43:15, August 10, 2010 CET | From | Social Justice Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Vote |
| Message | Solentian law already states that murder is a heinous and strongly punishable crime. How can we then as the state then inflict that very same crime even if the criminal were a murderer? It is for this reason that the SDA will not support the death penalty under any circumstances. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 42 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 58 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Game mechanics comes first." For example, if a currently-enforced bill sets out one law, then a player cannot claim the government has set out a contradictory law. |
| Random quote: "From my point of view, the killing of another, except in defense of human life, is archistic, authoritarian, and therefore, no anarchist can commit such deeds. It is the very opposite of what anarchism stands for." - Jo Labadie |