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Bill: Death Penalty Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Totalitarian 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: March 2162
Description[?]:
| Presently, our nation does not use death as a punishment for any crime. The Totalitarian Party feels death can be a powerful deterrent to criminals. Therefore, we propose the death penalty be brought back for serious crimes such as murder, smuggling illegal drugs, treason and any form of terrorism. |
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: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Proposed: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:48:22, December 23, 2005 CET | From | Post-Revolutionary Pragmatic Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | We disagree, for ethical and pragmatical reasons. |
| Date | 13:45:40, December 23, 2005 CET | From | Traxian Imperial Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | It has been tried before, and has been deemed a faliure so we cannot see the sence in re-enacting it |
| Date | 16:03:27, December 23, 2005 CET | From | United Soviet Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | No way |
| Date | 00:27:15, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Authority | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | We think that the criminal should be re-educated to behave correctly in our state, not killed like an animal, evene if he ad proved to be one. And, evene if someone could think that death is a deterrent, for the man with nothing to lose it surely is not. Moreover, we think that a life imprisonment is a better detterent than a quick death. |
| Date | 01:49:17, December 24, 2005 CET | From | Totalitarian Party | To | Debating the Death Penalty Act |
| Message | Do you think our government is going to waste funds re-educating a criminal who will spend the rest of his life in prison? Rehabilitation is pointless in this situation. They will not be rejoining society. Life imprisonment is so much more costly than capital punishment. I realise this is putting a price on a person's life, but I really don't care. Criminals deserve no better. I don't feel life imprisonment is a better deterrent than capital punishment. If you were offered life imprisonment or death, which would you choose? To add a further deterrent to religious extremists, we are willing to add a clause to the bill that will cause these people to be killed in a manner which will deny them entry to their afterlife. What do parties think of this? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 50 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 372 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 19 |
| Random fact: Parties have the ability to endorse another party's candidate for the Head of State election (if there is one). This adds a strategic element to the elections. |
| Random quote: "There is no problem that cannot be solved with diplomacy or debate. Anyone who thinks otherwise does not need a gun, but a direct ride to a mental health clinic." - Ascentio Cartaginese, former Istalian politician |