NationStates Jolt Archive


Abolish Death Penalty!

Happy County
03-12-2006, 05:36
Recently, a fairly large number of prisoners convicted to the death penalty has gotten their names cleared, post mortem. Activists have again heated up an old debate.

Validy: Death Penalty in use, nation has prison(s)

[option]"It's better that a thousand guilty men go free than that one innocent man is convicted" says @@RANDOMNAME@@, spokesperson of the activist group CAPT (Convicts Are People Too). "The recent events only shows us that Death Penalty is a one-way ticket, and after it is executed there is no way to get your sentence undone. We demand that Death Penalty is abolished, effective immediatly"
[effect] first-degree murderers are set free after a few years in prison


[option] "What nonsense!" says law-knowitall @@RANDOMNAME@@. Surely you understand that only the hardest of criminals get the capitol punishment: people that is beyond help in a civilized society. Yes, one can always argument with the chance of an unfair trial, but the positive effects are so much greater than the negative ones. I say keep the Death Penalty
[effect] people are innocently fried in the electrical chair daily


[option] "Death Penalty is not the solution" states @@RANDOMNAME@@, founder of the AFTER (A Fair Trial, Equal Rights) Foundation. "What is needed are harder punishments without use of The Big C. I say that life in prison should be implemented as an alternative. That way, people has a chance of appealing if they in fact are innocent of the crime they are convicted of"
[effect] people are locked away and never seen again
A_B
03-12-2006, 06:05
Too simplistic, try to add shock value to your effects and give thought to what things might be effected in the stats.
Nova Brittanica
03-12-2006, 06:09
There's already an issue that abolishes the death penalty, and I believe it's one of Max Barry's originals.
A_B
03-12-2006, 06:15
The problem is all you did was skim and you didn't actually read his issue. Had you done so, you'd have known he tree-ed this issue with that one.