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[FAILED] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:16 pm
by Midnight Sparkle
Ban on Capital Punishment
Category: Human Rights | Strength: Significant | Proposed by: United Massachusetts
Having already presented its rationale in GA 4XX,

Restating, however, that the death penalty institutionalizes a model of justice with only retributive value, a model inherently flawed in its assertion that violence and killing are best dealt with by more bloodshed,

Concerned that the use of capital punishment prevents nations from taking steps to correct errors in their legal process, the most grave and final sentence having already been delivered,

Believing that life sentences and other alternative punishments better provide criminals with the opportunities to repent for their wrongs and improve their habits,

Asserting that justice is best served without the death penalty, for it is cruel, condemns certain innocent people to death, and rejects the affirmation that all sapient life is valuable by its very existence,

The General Assembly, at long last, invoking its august power in this present session assembled, and by the advice and consent of its delegates and member nations, hereby:
  1. Declares that no member state may execute any person under its jurisdiction.
  2. Mandates that member nations commute any death sentences handed down within their jurisdiction, and instead determine through their legal processes an alternative punishment,
  3. Prohibits member nations from extraditing individuals to a foreign nation where they are likely to face execution or capital punishment inline with prohibited punishment above.
Co-authored by: Imperium Anglorum

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:19 pm
by Midnight Sparkle
As your Sub-Vizier of WA Affairs/Gameside Affairs, I'd recommend a vote FOR this proposal.

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:30 pm
by JRJR_SLAYER
I mean, sure.

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 9:31 pm
by Ghazia
I have voted NAY, on my WA nation, and I recommend everyone else do so.

The GA's current bill controls your nation's morals, it is telling you that you do not get a choice in whether you can punish your criminals by death. This harms many people who are like me and RP authoritarian and/or super religious empires. My main nation, for example, used to(and does sometimes now) punish heresy. Is that ok irl? no. Is it ok if I am RPing a country like that? yes. and the GA shouldn't be allowed to tell me I can't RP a certain way.

VOTE NAY!

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:37 pm
by Benjabobaria
Executing people is fun, vote against

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2018 5:27 am
by Felt Karpit
I'm FOR this proposal. Capital punishment is not a viable way of preventing crime.

Also I'm a dumb pacifist that doesn't believe that people have the right to end other's lives, but that's just me

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 1:00 pm
by PowerPAOK
FOR

Re: [AT VOTE] Ban on Capital Punishment

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:19 pm
by Sygian
For