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Bill: Repeal the Captial Punishment Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: People's Party of Endralon
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: February 4200
Description[?]:
| This Bill aims to repleal the Death Penalty and change the legality of judicial physical punishment. We storngly beleive that any form of physical punishment - including death - cannot be allowed in a modern society. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Government policy with respect to the death penalty.
Old value:: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Current: The death penalty is applied for capital crimes.
Proposed: The death penalty is illegal and is never to be applied.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Legality of judicial physical punishment
Old value:: Judicial corporal punishment (eg. caning or flogging) is legal.
Current: Judicial corporal punishment (eg. caning or flogging) is legal.
Proposed: All forms of physical punishment are illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:46:50, April 20, 2017 CET | From |  Endralon Socialist Party | To | Debating the Repeal the Captial Punishment Act |
| Message | We totally agree. |
| Date | 18:01:44, April 20, 2017 CET | From | Non-Partisan Movement | To | Debating the Repeal the Captial Punishment Act |
| Message | We disagree with article 1, life in prison is very expensive and some people have no hope of rehabilitation, but we have no objections over article 2. |
| Date | 18:03:46, April 20, 2017 CET | From | People's Party of Endralon | To | Debating the Repeal the Captial Punishment Act |
| Message | It is debatable whether it is cheaper to "simply" execute people without hope of rehabilitation. First we think it is not, but it's more importnat that we think this is a matter of ideology, not economics. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes | Total Seats: 57 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 180 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 265 |
| Random fact: Any RP law granting extraordinary "emergency powers" or dictator-like powers to a government must be passed by at least a 2/3rds majority, but (like all RP laws) may always be overturned by a simple majority vote of the legislature. |
| Random quote: "In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race" - John Stuart Mill |