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Bill: Capital Punishment Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: National Farmers' 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 2190
Description[?]:
| To restore retribution, save government expenditure, create a deterrent and to remove the problems permanently. |
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 to most minor and all major criminal offences.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 10:10:06, February 22, 2006 CET | From |  Freedom Party | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | We oppose the death penalty |
| Date | 14:45:34, February 22, 2006 CET | From | RSDP - Democratic Front | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | As do we. Besides, it has never been proved that the death penalty is more of a deterrent than life imprisonment. On the contrary! Someone who has committed a crime punishable by death could even consider killing all possible witnesses in order to prevent being caught. |
| Date | 20:52:11, February 22, 2006 CET | From | Libertarian Alcoholic Party II | To | Debating the Capital Punishment Bill |
| Message | Prisoners are useful. Better that they live and work for the rest of us than just die. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 75 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 465 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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