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Is the death penalty applied in your nation? If so, for what crimes? What procedures are in place to try and guarentee that the innocent are not put to death?

I've started an NSwiki article (here (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/International_death_penalty_statistics)) where you can list your nation as retentionist, abolitionist, or retentionist in theory and abolitionist in practice, and give as much detail as you want as to how things work in your nation.

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The Republic of Kanami is retentionist in practice. The crimes that render capital punishment are:

High Treason

Mass Murder (Intentional with malice)

Certain Degrees of Rape (most likely serial rapists)

Certaian Degrees of Murder (no over lap with mass)

Grand Theft of the National Treasurey

Acts of Terrorism

With any death row prisioner DNA, finger prints and all evidence is analyzied, to the point beyond reasonable doubt. This prevents death of innocent people. Crime Labs are also strictly watched by the Government.

The Incorporated Sarzonian Government is retentionist as it relates to the death penalty. Crimes that merit the ultimate punishment are as follows: First degree murder (to include mass murders or acts of terror that result in the loss of life) and treason (which is defined in much the same way as the U.S. Constitution's definition, except that spying for an enemy is also considered treason). Serial or other rapes are not punished by death; rather, the perpetrator is castrated.

Trials where the death penalty comes into play typically last three times longer than other trials in the Incorporated Sarzonian legal system, but once evidence is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, we execute anyone who is deemed competent to stand trial as an adult, including one 15 year old boy who was executed for premeditated murder.

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No problem; I've added you (and Sarzonia) to the wiki article anyway.

The Dominion of Khazaron is retentionist in concerns to the death penalty. The crimes that merit such a punishment in the Dominion are murder (Self defense is about the only form that is excluded from the death penalty, and you had better have good evidence that your life was in danger.), treason (Pretty much the same standards as Sarzonia. There are some rare exceptions that can be made, but those are so few and far between as to be non-existant. One notable exception was the amnesty granted to the Democratic Loyalists in the Six Month War, but they had to agree to pledge loyalty to the new regime in order to have the death penalty taken off the table.), and rape. (As with treason, there are very few exceptions to this crime.) Once a defendant is found guilt of any death-penalty crime, the sentance is immediately carried out by the state, usually within the confines of a sanctioned facility. The Dominion used to perform public executions, but in the time since the Treaty of Lamoni, they have cut back on them, seeing as how it was having a rather negative effect on public morale.

Retentionist. All cases of first-degree murder, rape other than statuatory, treason, espionage, and adhering to a few certain religions (such as Satanism) are punished by death. Sentence is carried out either by hanging or firing squad, at the choice of the criminal. In the event that a criminal has committed multiple, distinct capital crimes (such as murder-rape, but not double-murder), the punishment is to be hung, drawn, and quartered. Under the laws of Civitas Americae, a doctor who performs an abortion is considered guilty of first-degree murder.

Executions are not public.

The Resurgent Dream is retentionist. The death penalty is used for treason and particularly heinous murders.

When it comes to teh death penalty, we take teh Samuel L. Jackson approach. I.E., we find criminals and then "WASTE THE MOTHER FUCKERS!"

The death penalty in Semirhage is an unstable issue until the new Constitution clarifies things.

Due to the Great Purge over 10,000 Counter-Revolutionaries and Imperialists met their end by the guillotine.

In Blatzania the Death penalty is decided by the victim or his/her family in the following crimes

Murder-By painfully slow acid, firing squad, or the Gladiator pit Self defense you go free
Rape-By painfully slow acid or the victim’s request
Treason-We are developing extremely accurate missiles test subjects needed
Terrorism-Blow your freaking head off put on a pike and put at the gate to the country
J-walking in front of the emperor’s motorcade-No trial we run you over.

The Isam Nation (and so, the Imperial Faith Union) is not only retentionist, but fully embracing of the death pentalty. These are some of the crimes for which execution (in various forms) is given:

High Heresy (including Treason)
Worship of Illegal Beliefs
High Blasphemy
Assault upon a member of the Hierarchy
Murder
Desertion from the Armies of Isam
Failure to obey Church orders (civilian and military)
Resisting arrest that leads to the death/serious injury of a member of the Nazareth or Chapalincy
Refusal to submit to the scrutiny of a Chaplaincy Investigation
Illegal possession of firearms when deemed to be with intent to harm the Church/State
Trespass across a Deadline
Trespass into the private property of the Chaplaincy
Trespass into the private property of the Office of the Holy Ghost
Trespass into the Holy Precinct
Theft of Holy Artifacts (Low to High Heresy)

And plenty of others.

Abolitionist! The Republic of Drachons has always opposed the death penalty.

However, incarceration for life is a penalty applied for several crimes... intentional murder, rape, abuse of a minor, terrorist act on Drachons people, and so on...

We remove these people from society, but provide that they are unharmed.

And you know... it's not that they do not deserve to die... but human life cannot be taken without crime under our law... and their life is (however strange it may seem) is as important as the victims.

Pschycotic Pschycos is retentionist.

Crimes:

Treason (1 witness needed)
Murder
Large scale robberies
Terrorism
Assault of any kind to any government official or governmental guards.

All executions carried out as death-by-sword.

The Oliverrian constitution says that "Killing anybody, under any circumstances is illegal, excepted for euthanasia. On the last circumstance, the province has the right to legalize it or to illegalize it.

So, I think that makes us abolitionists

The fairly religious majority of NMS opposes the death penalty as un-Christian, and government policy reflects the will of the majority.

Frangland has no death penalty.

Those who are convicted of the most heinous crimes (first-degree murder, treason, etc.) are placed in 27-cubic-foot cells for the rest of their natural lives, with no chance for parole.

They are fed bread, water and vitamin pills thrice daily.

They are allowed to walk outside, shackled, 1 hour per week.

They are subject to medical experiments, which may include quite a lot of physical pain.

We run a one-hour weekly show on Frangland Public Television featuring live video cam on one of the high-crime prisoners, in an attempt to deter major crimes.

We understand that some people cannot be deterred from such crimes (sociopaths, dangerous schizophrenics, etc) and that some crimes cannot be completely stamped out (crimes of passion)... but by showing the extent to which these people suffer in their cages and how they can barely stand outside to enjoy the sunshine, it is our hope that those who may be deterred from major crimes will be deterred from such crimes.

Otagia retains its death sentence, although the only possible method of death is "Death by Medical Experimentation." Self explanitory, especially with all of our non-conventional weapons.

Frangland has no death penalty.

Those who are convicted of the most heinous crimes (first-degree murder, treason, etc.) are placed in 27-cubic-foot cells for the rest of their natural lives, with no chance for parole.

They are fed bread, water and vitamin pills thrice daily.

They are allowed to walk outside, shackled, 1 hour per week.

They are subject to medical experiments, which may include quite a lot of physical pain.

We run a one-hour weekly show on Frangland Public Television featuring live video cam on one of the high-crime prisoners, in an attempt to deter major crimes.

We understand that some people cannot be deterred from such crimes (sociopaths, dangerous schizophrenics, etc) and that some crimes cannot be completely stamped out (crimes of passion)... but by showing the extent to which these people suffer in their cages and how they can barely stand outside to enjoy the sunshine, it is our hope that those who may be deterred from major crimes will be deterred from such crimes.

Good idea. I think I'll institute this for lesser violent criminals. Thanx dude.

The Candrian Empire, as liberal as it is, is a retentionist of the death penalty for capital crimes; however it is reserved for specific cases and has been used in the history of the Dominion only 17 times. The only crimes that the death penalty covers are mass murder, mass rape, abuse of the welfare of others or mass exploitation, and treason. Most other crimes recieve punishments that, however harsh and long, allow an individual to return to society as a functional member, if under restraint.

Methods of Death:
Medical/Military Experimentation - Honorable, and seen as a gift to the country. Only availible for treason (desertion, aid of foreign countries without lisence or informing of the Dominion [IE Spying or supplying insurgencies with goods], or insurgency with intent to destablize society or government functions). Seen as a move to "pay back" the country for the harm an individual made.

Count - 4

Military Training - Basically, life fire excercises to train troops against a real enemy. If victorious here, an individual may earn their freedom pending therapy. Also seen as honorable.

Count - 3

Lethal Injection - Reserved for mass murderers or malicious extortionists. Not honorable in any way whatsoever.

Count - 4

Hanging, Firing Squad, or Quartering - Reserved for the heinous mass murderers, rapists, and their ilk.

Count - 1, 1, and 2

Flash Freeze - Body is dipped in liquid nitrogen, and donated to science. Seen as honorable.

Count - 2

The punishments for crimes that would get the death penalty outside of the Dominion are harsh, particularly cruel, and have roused the lobbying groups for the rights of interned convicts; it is agreed, however, that these methods have kept violent crime at a minimum. However, other crimes continue to be high.

Callisdrun, strictly speaking, is retentionist. This is where my nation's politics and my politics differ, as I am personally against the death penalty.

There is only one crime in Callisdrun that a person can be executed for, and that is:
High Treason.

Executions are usually carried out by means of a very sharp, heavy axe, which beheads the convict. This of course, after trial by jury, etc.

Executions have also been carried out by firing squads, and convicts may opt to kill themselves as well.

Polka Wolka has no death penalty.
Life in prison with no chance of freedom is worst than death.

Article 73 of the Knootian constitution (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=397903) bans capital punishment.

Death penalty for
* Satanism (unless you repent your sins to the JCC)
* Paedophilia
* Genocide
* Nazism
* Treason
* Terrorism (related to others)

In the Imperial Autocracy serious crimes such as murder, treason and terrorism are punishable by death. The exact method of execution for those found guilty of these crimes is decided by the judge at their trials. Death by firing squad is the most common means of execution.

For particularly heinous crimes convicts are sent to “the Tank”. The Tank is a special chamber underneath the Imperial Palace in which the sentenced person is strapped to a chair before the chamber fills, quite slowly, with water. This practise dates back hundreds of years to a time when those found guilty of plotting against the king would be taking on a boat, weighted down and cast into the sea.

It’s a cruel punishment but it’s meant to be. It’s also worth noting that Hypocria’s crime rates are exceptionally low.

The Holy Empire of Cuation uses the death penalty for many crimes, mostly

murder
saying bad things against the goverment
doing something against the goverment
dodging milatry service
looking at Warlord Jude in a weird manner
Becuase our warlord feels like it

Really we have few standard punishments, they get decided on the day. Same with crimes, if our beloved ruler feels like punishing someone, he can pick them for no reason whatso ever and have them killed in any way he likes

Warlord Jude Takerath is intrested in copying the Tank punishment if the nation of Hypocria would allow us to do so

The Commonwealth of Usono believes that the death penalty is an inappropriate seizure of ultimate power over human beings by a fallible entity, the state. We have always been abolitionist.

The Democratic Republic of tuvanistan rtains the death penalty until further change

Current method of death: chosen by prisoner
Hanging
Guillotine
Firing Squad
Suacide
Death by revenge murder

the death pennalty is only held for one crime: mass murder (with the exceptions of revenge, self defence and mentally ill)

What are... Penalties?

For that matter, what's a death penalty?

Retentionist.

In the Republic, ther death penatly is applicable for crimes such as treason, rape, certain types and degrees of murder, espionage, large scale durg trafficking, perjury, kidnapping, terrorism, and adultery.

It should be noted that while adultery can be punished by death, in the vast majority of cases it is not. (The hatred of adultery in Syskeyian society predates even the introduction of Christianity to the country- it could even be said that said faith benefitted the adulterers in that it eased up on the harshness of the punishments for said crime!)

The most common method of execution in Syskeyia is by firing squad. This replaces decapitation, which was the way criminals were executed before guns became widely available.

It should be noted that executions in the Republic are carried out with the least amount of fanfare, as it were. The public is notified of the execution only after the criminal has been executed and buried. This is to avoid the nosiy commotions that come with public execution, whether from "doves" demanding that vicious criminals be spared and treated lightly (broadly speaking) and "Hawks" who love vengance and desire only the utter worst for the condemned.

The wonderful nation of Vegana does NOT believe in the Death penalty. It is up to god almighty to punish people and to lord Jesus Christ to relieve them of their sins.

The government have however found that very few criminals that are put to death relapse into criminal behaviour, in fact none, and have therefore decided to put criminals to death, not as a penalty but as a preventive action. In the judicial system this is used for recividists in any crime that involves violence against other human beings, thus rooting out most professional criminality.

There is however a large number of people in the judicial system that is condemned to spend the rest of their lives in the penal batallions. But the number of people being sent there highly depends on fluctuations in supply and demand.

By Xanthalian law, all crimes are created equal. Rehabilitation and restitution are the staples of justice in the Republic, but repeat offenders (the number of repeats increases with the manner of crime, from one for first class offenses (murder, rape, treason, etc.) to fifty for fourth class offenses (littering, minor disorderly conduct, etc.) There is a point system in place in which offenders' infractions are totalled. Once the necessary number of points is reached, it lies within the jurisdiction of sentencing judges to prescribe the death penalty, which is carried out by instantaneous demolecularization one year after the sentence is given, that time being for any appeals and presentation of new evidence. It is, naturally, a bit more complicated than I make it out to be, but what I've described here is an accurate general representation for the casual audience.

Mirkana, being a militarized state, employs the death penalty a lot. In fact, there are three methods of execution (in order of severity)

Sniper (death is instant)
Flamethrower (death is quick but painful)
Injected with acid (death takes several seconds of unimaginable pain)

These methods are preferred because once the execution process begins, it is irreversable.

Crimes punishable by sniper include:
Murder
Rape
Insubordination
Incompetence

Crimes punishable by flamethrower include:
Mass murder
Treason
Severe incompetence
Terrorism

Crimes punishable by acid injection include:
Extraordinary incompetence
Cruel murder (rape + murder, torturing people to death)
If General Remmol wants to make a statement to the world (these executions are ALWAYS televised)

All executions are carried out within 15 seconds of the sentence being delivered. High-profile executions are often broadcast internationally.

The Mirkanan court system does not allow for appeals. A trial is more like an investigation designed to uncover the truth. Imagine CSI followed immediately by sentencing.

No citizen of Findhorn is wise enough to decide whether another human being should live or die.

Pantocratoria has capital punishment for certain crimes, although it is very rarely employed - much less than it is in the United States in real life. There are two methods of execution available to judges in sentencing, although different methods can be approved in certain circumstances. The two methods of execution available are death by hanging, and death by the electric wheel.

The electric wheel harks back to the old form of execution of being broken on the wheel, although it is naturally much more humane. It is essentially the same as an electric chair, except instead of sitting down in a chair, the victim is strapped to a wooden carriage wheel, and electrocuted on it.

The death penalty is not mandatory for any crime, but is available for:

-Treasonous Sacrilege (the murder or the attempted murder of the Emperor)
-Treason against the Imperial Person (physically assaulting the Emperor, or murder, attempted murder, or physical assault of a child of an Emperor, or the wife of the Emperor or his male heirs committing adultery, or the rape of the Empress or of any of the Emperor's daughters or daughters in law)
-Treason (covering a variety of serious crimes against the state)
-Murder of a Prince of the Blood, Murder of a Worthy of the Empire, Multiple Murder
-Rape of a Princess of the Blood

(It should be noted that several of these charges also attract lesser charges. For instance, if someone was charged with raping the Emperor's daughter, he would be charged with both Rape of a Princess of the Blood and Treason against the Imperial Person)

I have classified Pantocratoria as abolitionist in practice since there hasn't been a case in which it has been applied for decades, and since the "retentionist" countries are listed as applying it on a regular basis.

Barbaric! Pantocratoria is clearly retentionistl, given all the talk you gave to breaking Galadriël on the wheel. :(

The only reason judges and magistrates ever sentence someone to death are because of:

1. Crime
2. Treason
3. Disrespect towards authority

In the Terran Dominion, The Death Penalty is exercised for the following crimes:

Rape of any degree other than statutory.

Murder.

Treason.

The attempted murder of a law enforcement, government, or military official.

Pedophilia, if we're feeling generous... If not we give them to the rest of the inmates, and have the guards look away.

Regicide.

Desertion in the face of the Enemy.

Terrorism.

Genetic Manipulation. The Doctors didn't get the message when we outlawed it, so now we kill any we catch at it. We havben't caught many recently, I wonder why???

It's not implemented, though theoretically available. Of course, most people sent to the penal colony on Netu commit suicide anyway, so it's much the same thing.

Not that I have much crime *Waves a little 'alien culture' flag*

The death sentence is in common practice within Iesus Christi, and the government reserves the right to sentence any criminal to death. The usual form of execution is hanging but people simply ‘disappearing’ for crimes is also very common.

Crimes that generally lead to a death sentence being passed are….

Treason against State/God/humanity.
Murder
Act of Extreme Cruelty i.e.: rape with disfigurement .
Extreme and repeated Blasphemy
Sexual relations with metahumans leading to race mixing/Abominations.
Enslavement and involvement in the industry of slavery.
Professing belief in a prohibited religion.

Oh, and for Lord Atum [my puppet], I'm pretty sure every crime committed by a human carries the death penalty, normally administered either summarily, or by vapourisation.

I find this topic interesting and will therefore give it a gratuitous bump for more responses.

Chimaea abolished the death penalty a long long time ago on the basis that life-imprisonment is the more morally sound option, and creates less injustice if the guilt was cleared.

A life sentence in Chimaea means life, until the day of death. It is reserved for more serious offences such as mass murder.

Liverpool England abolished the death penalty 110 years ago, but recently after Timothy McCraig took charge as Minister for Internal Affairs and took power of the Parliament in a recent General Election (with his Greens winning a 67% majority), the death penalty has been re-legalised, but is only used if an assassination attempt is involved.

The death sentence is in common practice within Iesus Christi, and the government reserves the right to sentence any criminal to death. The usual form of execution is hanging but people simply ‘disappearing’ for crimes is also very common.

Crimes that generally lead to a death sentence being passed are….

Treason against State/God/humanity.
Murder
Act of Extreme Cruelty i.e.: rape with disfigurement .
Extreme and repeated Blasphemy
Sexual relations with metahumans leading to race mixing/Abominations.
Enslavement and involvement in the industry of slavery.
Professing belief in a prohibited religion.

I take it the Iesus leadership is excluded from persecution? :p

While Oglethorpia had the death penalty for a couple decades even after its unification into the Bureaucratic States (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Oglethorpia), the multiple methods of capital punishment were drastically scaled back. Nowadays there is no modern punishment that condemns criminals to death; however, Oglethorpia still maintains a highest form of punishment; defenestration.

For the reason that defenestration involves an element of chance and randomness, it is not considered the death penalty. To be specific, it is the "An act of throwing someone or something out of a window." Typically it is carried out from a fourth floor window -- success is well, success, and survivors serve out life sentences.

The Bureaucratic States Constitution of Written Laws and Codes has no such clause rendering 'cruel-and-unusual' punishment illegal, and most in the nation see no problem with it.

I take it the Iesus leadership is excluded from persecution? :p

The Iesus leadership carry out the Law, they are not above it. I have no idea at what you're alluding too. :P

The death penalty is passed down with fairness and justice.

Oh, Matty Matty, I think you do. ;)

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We have it for most crimes...murder, speaking the forbidden language, hunting the moon ram...and we will be forced to resign from the UN should a ban pass. Fortunately, it won't.

Our Government is fully against the death penalty as the vast majority of our public: it's a useless and degrading way, killing is just bad, so let's set the example.
However, we do retain of course life imprisonment as an alternative and those that commit terrorism, manslaughter, raping and abusing of children or in other child abuse will face the highest punishment, that being life imprisonment.

We have the death penalty for apostasy, "idolatry" (Hinduism, Shinto, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Humanism, Anglicanism, Oriental Orthodoxy, Buddhism, etc.)), interracial sex, Judaism, being Jewish (ethnically speaking), homosexuality, adultery, "treason" (being a member of the current government of Marlund or voting in Marlundish elections), abortion, "heresy" (all forms of non-Calvinist Protestantism as well as Arrianism, Nestorianism, Pelagianism, etc.), divorce, women speaking about religion, disobedient children, and a few other things. Of course, we're technically not a state so much as a terrorist network, but we carry out sentences when we can, on nations and individuals.

The Federation of Frelune could best dbe described as retentionist, as the national government takes no stance on the death penalty overall, except as it pertains to assassination (the sometimes legal practice of getting the next Least Free installed). Various informal local tribunals apply it with regularity, and only rarely is a counter-decision sent down from the Least Free.

the only crime that is punished is defiling the holy and most high dicator.

Is the death penalty applied in your nation? If so, for what crimes? What procedures are in place to try and guarentee that the innocent are not put to death?

I've started an NSwiki article (here (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/International_death_penalty_statistics)) where you can list your nation as retentionist, abolitionist, or retentionist in theory and abolitionist in practice, and give as much detail as you want as to how things work in your nation.

I basically execute anyone I don't like.

There's zero death penalty in the Omzian Republic... We just put murders, drug traffickers, rapists, etc. in labour camps for several tens of years, until they die of 'nature causes'.

Come on down to the Grand Duchy of Bohemian Middlemen!

Commit a crime, any crime - no death penalty here - what the heck!?

In fact, some heinous crimes like (wink, wink) smuggling narcotics will get you a fine job with our intelligence services and a sumptious townhome in close proximity to the national residence of our fearless leader....;)

The only crime that will merit death is the killing of a gopher (the national symbol of pride)

Nerobi Narabba does not support the death penalty because of how waist full it is to the world. Instead, a life of harsh slavery is what we punish our most serious offenders with.

The Eco-Democratic Republic of Biotopia Constitutionally upholds the abolition of both the death penalty and torture in the pursuit of and the execution of the legal process.

Euthanasia, abortion and infanticide are legalised practices but by definition fall outside this prohibition. Capital punishment is considered a cruel, barbaric and retroactive measure that acts as a blunt tool on the complex problem of crime and criminal behaviour. Our legal processes instead focus on rehabilitation and positive intervention in the pre-conditions that would otherwise encourage criminal behaviour. There are a handful of crimes which are considered so heinous as to warrant mandatory life sentences although the conditions of incarceration my vary. These crimes are: paedophilia, multiple rape charges, psychotic delinquency (life-term in a sanatorium) and gross Constitutional violations (treason resulting in the death of citizens, provision of aid to a hostile foreign enemy and the conduct of extrajudicial or mass killings)

The Eternal Empire of Yurka finds the death penalty rather lenient, though necessary in cases involving humans that can not be put to use in any other way. The following is a short list of crimes and the punishments regularly given. Most of these can be waived if the criminal is a registered duelist.


"Unjust" First-Degree Murder: Slave Labor 25+ years; Forced Experimentation.
-Mass Murder/Serial Killing: Slave Labor for live; Forced Experimentation; Usually Thrown to the Wolves*.

Rape: Slave Labor 15+ years(possible sterilization).
-Second Offense: Hard Labor for life; Forced Experimentation.
-Statuatory: Community Service.


Tax Evasion or Bribery: Hard Labor 10+years or how long it takes to pay off costs; Rarely undergoes being depending on severityThrown to the Wolves*.


Thef of National Treasure: Hard Labor 40+years; Forced Experimentation; Thrown to the Wolves*.


Regicide: Forced Experimentation; Thrown to the Wolves*.


Treason: Hard Labor for life; Forced Experimentation; Thrown to the Wolves*.


*The Grand Wolf being primarily used and usually specially bred and given growth hormones. This goes back to Zoel Yurka(188BC-151BC) who fed most criminals of the time to a special pack of Grand wolf he kept. If the criminal somehow manages to kill the pack with his bare hands, which is virtually impossible unless some kind of miracle occurs, then he is exempt from his crimes.

Duelists: Licensed Duelists are legally allowed to kill eachother at all times with the exception of certain holy days. They are also allowed a chance to repent every crime via trial by combat. This includes the highest crimes of regicide and treason, though adjusted accordingly to make them closer to the realm of impossibility.


((Please note that due to the barcoding of almost everyone in Yurka, almost all crime in cities has ceased, and any within it is usually found and squashed quickly.))

we do not officially have the death penalty.

however, those who commit major crimes sometimes have accidents.

in one particularly high-profile case, a convicted murderer apparently decided to try and cross the seventy-five miles seperating the prison from the nearest town while wearing a deer suit.

our investigation found that his death ,although ruled an accident, could likely have been prevented had the pursuit team been quicker to order a hunting area along his escape route closed (our hunting laws are a little different.)

"The Commonality retains the death penalty as a means to dissuade barbarian foreigners from breaching our laws regarding the carriage of lethal arms.

"Naturally, it is rarely enforced these days. But the courts are somewhat... whimsical... in that regard. So don't go bringing in a handgun, eh?

"Of course, high treason (and 'low' treason, as it were, for those in the armed forces) still mandates the death penalty.

"However, there have, in recent times, been numerous efforts by various persons to push for 'death of personality' rather than 'death of body'. It remains to be seen whether this radical possibility will take root or be utterly dismissed by the People of the Iluvauromeni Commonality of Everlasting Light."

~ Secretary Ilisa Rihad-Menjda, Third Echelon, Imperial House Oversight and Liaisonary Committee for Foreign Legal Relations

Tahar Joblis abolished the death penalty a long time ago. Alternative sentences include permanent exile, lifelong imprisonment, etc.

The death penalty has been abolished for all crimes in Manhattan Prime. The harshest form of punishment remaining is life in prison.

The Republic of Pericord considers Capital Punishment as nothing less than Judicial murder...

It is Punitive, Retributive, Non-restorative and Non-rehabilitative and therefore must be deemed reprehensible and anathema to any form of civilized society.

BUT ! capital punishment is not exactly congruent with the principle of a death penalty. This is one aspect of the ethics that many people fail to acknowledge and thus make gross errors by regarding that which must be considered "permissible ,but morally disordered" as morally neutral or even a moral good!!!

Allow me a few seconds to explain.
The state,person and individual has a right to enforce a death penalty upon a hostile aggressor who directly and immediately threatens or jeopardises the life/lives of other/s - but this has the motive of the promotion and the preservation of life - the taking of life is a mere secondary unwilled necessity in the process. This resides under the principle of the double-effect . It may invariably be the right thing to do but it is never to be considered a "good-in-itself" due to the moral disorder which has ensued [i.e. at the end of it all, no matter what the circumstances and no matter how much life has been saved; someone is dead!]

Death is never a valid form of punishment.
The enactment of the mentioned form of death penalty [justified in our statutes] is not by any means a form of punishment.

We consider Capital punishment an abberration within human reasoning. It's insane, barbaric and sheer hypocrisy for anyone who presumes to be religious in any way.

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abolitionist. the death penaly was banned by one of the constitiution's 147 ammendments.

The Xirniumite Republic has abolished the death penalty for all crimes.

Capital punishment was originally the maximum penalty for all felonies in the early Xirniumite common law. In practice, the death penalty was never applied as widely as Xirniumite law could have provided, as a variety of legal doctrines and procedures were adopted to mitigate the harshness of the law. Many offenders who committed capital crimes had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment.

Beginning in the early eighteenth century, most of the capital statutes then in effect were gradually repealed by Parliament, and by the middle of the century only six offences remained that could result in capital punishment - murder, rape, treason, maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm, arson in a naval dockyard, and piracy committed with violence (in addition to their relevant inchoate offences).

Continued demands for sentencing reform led to the gradual doing away with of the death penalty for the remaining crimes in which it was still available, and by the end of the nineteenth century it had almost completely been removed from the statute books for peacetime offences. In today’s Xirnium the death penalty has been totally abolished.

Ariddia:
"Is the death penalty applied in your nation? If so, for what crimes? What procedures are in place to try and guarentee that the innocent are not put to death?"

Kesshite is retentionist; the law states that the death penalty shall apply to "brutal" murderers and treason. That law is only enforced in cities, however. In the wilderness and villages, it varies by communities. Murder, rape, thief, heresy, adultery, and baring false witness can all lead to death.

Death penalty laws are handled much the same as other crimes.

((nothing like bringing back to life old threads about death. ^.^))

The Gull Flag Republic is retentionist. The Constitution of 1953 gives the National Assembly, guided by the Director of Justice, the power to legislate such acts as can be considered worthy of the ultimate vengeance of the state. Current civilian examples of capital crimes include:

Treason: The definition used in the Anti-Republican Crimes Act of 1954 is very broad and loose. Originally intended to be used as a weapon against Royalist spies working for Effit, Lawrence Madders' radical Grand Street Faction has expanded the use of this law greatly beyond the intent of the framers. The Justice Directorate has prosecuted several individuals on what might more accurately be termed 'sedition' than 'treason.'
Insurrection: Created by the Preservation Act of 1956, this was largely intended to be used as a weapon in the trial of Citizen James Callahan, the ci-devant High King of Iansisle, who raised his banner in Topton and gathered an army of royalist foothillsmen to march against the Republic's government. It has since been rarely used.
Violent Acts Against the People: Although not intended by the framers of the Anti-Republican Crimes Act of 1954 to be used when no actual crime had been committed, nonetheless the Justice Directorate has prosecuted several potential terrorists on the intent to commit VAAP.
Murder and Rape (all degrees): Created in the Civil Crimes Act of 1954.
Piracy: A curious holdover from the Grand Empire, the Republic still grants its Admiralty the right (under the Anti-Piracy Act of 1954) to try and execute all those engaged in acts of theft, murder or slave-trading on the high seas. The Admiralty does not discriminate in enforcing the A-P Act; all slavers and pirates caught by its ships, regardless of citizenship, will be taken back to an Iansislean base, tried by a naval tribunal, and executed.

All civilian crimes, Piracy excluded, are nominally tried by a jury of peers. Exactly how well the Justice Directorate adheres to the high-minded principles of the Constitution is open to debate. One notable exception is that of Citizen Callahan, who -- in order to show the nation's rejection of him -- was tried by a full meeting of the Assembly and sentenced by a national referendum. All civilian criminals are hanged.

Death is also a possible finding of courts-martial, for military crimes including desertion, mutiny, cowardice, and other acts of major insubordination or dereliction of duty. Most military criminals -- mutineers, who are hanged, excluded -- are executed at dawn by firing squad.

Many call the Republic's methods draconian. However, with the revolution under siege by royalist traitors at home and reactionary militarist states abroad, the Gull Flag will do what it must to protect its freedoms.

OOC: Yikes! Someone has dug it up. :eek:

San Monticaz has never had a death penalty in place & nor will ever. President Muneaz Coloumbus believes no matter what ever happened, no-man should have the right to judge whether or not someone should die for their crimes. The Worst is to spend lifetime in dark cold cell (12 ft x 5 ft) with only a very small window & only getting to spend an hour a day outside the cell.

In Rejistania, capital punishment is abolished.

Altanar practices the death penalty, but very rarely. It can legally only be imposed for the following crimes:

- high treason
- murder, rape, and child molestation or abuse, when the crimes listed qualify for the label "gross", which indicates multiple offenses (for example, gross murder = mass murder) There must be at least three convictions to qualify under the "gross" penalty, although Altanari courts are very reluctant to impose the death penalty, so in practice, the number of required offenses is usually much higher than that.

There are also several steps that must be followed. After being convicted for high treason or a "gross" offense, the case is sent to the Capital Punishment Review Board under the Ministry of Justice. This board is made up of medical personnel, rehabilitation experts, and corrections personnel. If this board determines that the offender represents a continuing danger to the populace despite rehabilitation efforts, the offender then becomes eligible for the death penalty. The case is then sent to the Citizen Capital Punishment Review Board, which is made up of 17 individual citizens appointed by the governors of Altanar's 17 provinces. If this board also signs off on the death penalty, the case goes for its final review by the State Court, Altanar's highest court. If the State Court approves the death penalty as well, an execution date is set and eventually carried out, barring a pardon from the King. These steps and requirements were placed to ensure that Altanar does not ever become a "revolving door" practicioner of the death penalty.

There is no death penalty in HotRodia. Many suspect it has to do with there being no real government. I suppose the nation would be considered abolitionist in a sense, because a long time ago when HotRodia was a centrist democracy it did have the death penalty, and we could consider the abolition of the state to be a de facto abolition of the death penalty.

Minister of Hospitality
Meritania Garrote

HotRodia:
"...there being no real government."

I don't believe that you have to be part of a 'government' in the internationally recognized sovereign body sense to be able to impose a death penalty. For instance, in Kesshite, a man who had murdered another might be stoned to death by his neighbors because the village priest told them to do it.

While the man's death isn't a product of the official judicial system of Kesshite, if the members of the community recognize the priest's right to say, "Okay, that guy dies," then they are accepting him as part of a 'governing' body. I'd say that even if they killed the man and the priest later on confirmed that this was just, this would fulfill the concept of a death penalty.

Prosperas abolished all forms of capital punishment shortly after it became a republic in 1920.

cameroi impliments at least two options as alternatives to the death penalty which, while we comprehend the potential utility of, we none the less feel and practice, as a mater of policy, that, well the government, what there is of us, don't wan't potentialy innocent blood on our hands, and not just because we would be liable for the same sanctions as anyone else, if and when the inevitable errors that occur in any legal system were to take place.

but at any rate, life enslavement to the families of the victums, seems a not unreasonable alternative, and one with a long and honorable history.

various forms and conditions of exile are also penal options under appropriate circumstances.

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The Jovian Empire has the death penalty, but they haven't actually executed anyone in over a century. They ship their worst criminals to various prisons offworld, in the asteroid belt, or on allied planets.

The Democratic Republic of Lumpopo is abolitionist with regard to the death penalty. Several offences including murder may carry life imprisonment without remission.

HotRodia:
"...there being no real government."

I don't believe that you have to be part of a 'government' in the internationally recognized sovereign body sense to be able to impose a death penalty. For instance, in Kesshite, a man who had murdered another might be stoned to death by his neighbors because the village priest told them to do it.

While the man's death isn't a product of the official judicial system of Kesshite, if the members of the community recognize the priest's right to say, "Okay, that guy dies," then they are accepting him as part of a 'governing' body. I'd say that even if they killed the man and the priest later on confirmed that this was just, this would fulfill the concept of a death penalty.

None of the religions present in HotRodia advocate death for misconduct, so such a scenario is incredibly unlikely. Certainly, the leaders of the primary religion, Combustian priestesses, would not order such a thing, nor would their followers carry it out if they did.

Death does occur in HotRodia, but it's generally done in defense of self or others, and the decision is made by an individual directly involved, not the community at large.

Minister of Hospitality
Meritania Garrote

Iglesian Archipelago is opposed to death penalty, so it's an abolitionist nation.

This was a result from the Iglesian Slavery Wars: on 5th June, 1688, the Western Iglesian Empire (a slavery opposing nation) officially won the war and reunified with the Eastern Iglesian Empire.

Despite this, the fascist dictator Manuel Agreste restored the use of death penalty for many crimes, such as political opposition (it could be either arrest or death, depending on how a person opposed the dictator).

On 3rd March, 1917, the dictator was murdered by democracy defenders and they abolished death penalty.