NationStates Jolt Archive

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

Too simplistic, try to add shock value to your effects and give thought to what things might be effected in the stats.

There's already an issue that abolishes the death penalty, and I believe it's one of Max Barry's originals.

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.