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What is your countries' position on the death penalty?

Is it

-a country with frequent executions?
-has the death penalty in law but in practise uses it rarely, or has not used it in decades?
-is abolitionist?

If it does have the death penalty what does it have it for and in what year was the last execution? What method is used? Is it in public?

Vallermoore has the death penalty for six crimes

First degree murder (last used this year)
First degree rape (although in practise most juries prefer to convict on a lesser charge or acquit) (last used three years ago on three gang rapists)
First degree paedophilia (last used two years ago.)
First degree treason (not used for centuries until the foiling of a recent Gunpowder Plot two years ago.)
Paralysing someone seriously if it cannot be fixed (if the person heals and can move again before the trial the charge is lowered to a non-capital charge) (last used five years ago)
Drink driving that causes death or permanent serious injury (last used this year)


We execute on average between seventeen and fifty people a year by hanging or lethal injection. Treason executions are held in public, others in semi-public.

Capital punishment was abolished in our nation in 2003, following a referendum which saw 86% voting in favour of abolition.

Prior to its abolishment, it was the maximum penalty for murder and treason in our nation, however only one person in our modern history was ever executed for treason: Alexander Winters, who was executed in 1964 for attempting to give state secrets to spies from the Soviet Union. All other instances of the death penalty in Gandoor prior to its abolishment were in cases of murder.

The last person to be executed in Gandoor was the serial killer Minoru Takino, who was executed in 1997 for having murdered twenty-three people between 1984 and 1987.

At the time of capital punishment's abolishment, there were three people still on death row in Gandoor, all three automatically had their sentences commuted to the new maximum sentence of seventy-five years imprisonment upon its abolishment.

When capital punishment was utilized, all executions were carried out via hanging.

All capital crimes and high felonies are punishable by death. These include the crimes of high treason (criminal disloyalty to the Sovereign and his Government), compounding high treason (the taking of consideration to hamper or infuriate the prosecution of high treason), petty treason (disloyal homicide), forstall (ambush homicide with arms), murder (homicide without arms), manslaughter (the unlawful killing of another), high arson (wilful burning of a building effecting death), rape (with emission of seed by a man, penetration of another man's wife, a widow or a virgin), mayhem (mutilating, disfiguring or cripping a person so as to deprive him of ability) and kidnap (the unlawful capture, asportation and confinement of a person).

The sentence of death for a high felony is up to the judge, and most receive life imprisonment instead. Some other crimes do receive the death penalty, but they are comparatively rare, and include crimes such as sodomy, witchcraft and poaching from the Royal forest. Among the crimes listed above, convictions and sentences for them involving the death penalty are most common for homicidal crimes, such as forstall and murder. The difference between the two is that forstall requires the use of arms or an implement, be it a sword, a firearm, a knife, or a pillow (to suffocate), whilst murder requires that the death be occasioned without arms, that is, by bodily contact only, or through the use of poisons (unless they be forced) or by unlawfully and maliciously withholding something, such as medicines. Lesser instances of forstall can be and often are charged as murder, as the punishment for forstall is being hanged and drawn, whilst that of murder and most other capital crimes of simply hanging. The punishment for high treason is being hanged, drawn and quartered, whilst the punishment for petty treason is the same as for forstall.

Astoria is an abolitionist state, with capital punishment being officially abolished in 1597, and constitutionally prohibited since 1674. Prior to this, death sentences were handed out extremely thinly, averaging one every two hundred years. However, no death sentence was ever carried out, due to the lack of execution facilities, and the fact that whenever a death sentence was pronounced, it was always without fail commuted to life imprisonment.

While capital punishment was practiced in our predecessor states, it has been constitutionally banned since the establishment of Aikoland in 1995. Anyone on death row in Japan, Korea, or Taiwan had their sentences automatically commuted to life imprisonment upon Aikoland's establishment.

Dead penalty was abolished in 1911. We believe that the law itself has a limit and that line stands in the life of a person. Life imprisonment is contemplated in the Civilian Code.

Capital punishment is legal and is the maximum sentence for murder, treason, or aiding the enemy during wartime.

However, there has been a moratorium on its use for the past nineteen years (since 2007) and the most recent person to be executed in the Islamic Queendom was hanged for murder in 2003. (And it must be noted that their execution was the first one to occur following the end of a previous moratorium against capital punishment which existed from 1992 until 2000)

The death penalty is illegal in Katas, under normal circumstances

There is a law that states that if the mere act of a criminal living, even in prison, is a significant danger to public order, execution is allowed

No executions have ever been done under this law, and only one case was ever considered

Our prison system is based more around rehabilitation than punishment, and we consider a life sentence to be a worse than execution

We tend to execute people frequently, and we even have concentration camps. All executions are carried out by the gas chamber, but various brutal execution methods were used beforehand. When the gas chamber was invented, we realized that it's much more efficient than the many violent execution methods we had before. We mostly use Zyklon B these days, because it's readily available from Nilrahrarfan and the Hurricania Imperium.

In willitya we have the death penalty but only for war crimes and multiple counts of first degree murder.Last used 8 years ago on Kiera Monet for the murder of 39 people.

It has been recently (last 10 years) abolished. Before that it was used very sparsely anyway (less than one verdict per 10 years).

Cascadia is a nation that makes frequent use of the death penalty, when it is determined that rehabilitation is either impossible, or that it would not be profitable to keep them alive for any enterprise. The death penalty is viewed as a routine culling of society's worst elements, though the unusual government structure sees that criminals who fork over a punitive amount of their earnings stay alive. There is no judiciary, and designated Civil Corps personnel can execute somebody on the spot.

In the Federation of Lillorainen, armed robbery (if one survives it for some reason, that is), murder, rape, and treason can be punished by death penalty, yet is not necessarily. It is an option that laws leaves for these types of crime. Therefore, the Federation is one of these countries that aren't abolitionist, but use it rarely - only six executions have been noted since 1981, two of which in 1994, the last one in 2012.

We have many crimes which are punishable by death. These include, but are not limited to: murder, rape, poaching, treason and heresy. Lower class criminals are usually hung, while nobles are typically beheaded. Regardless of class, religious crimes such as heresy or apostasy and "female" crimes such as petty treason (murder of her father or husband) are punished by burning at the stake

Since it was founded, the EDR of Blustan never put the Death penalty into use. Article 1 paragraph 4 of the Blustinian constitution states that: " The death penalty shall remain abolished".

while there is not capital punishment applied in Phoenia and referred to in the penal law, and so the commonwealth praises the abolition, there's reference of it in constitution.

the comma, amongst the first articles in constitution, while there is not application in the procedure of laws, commends death caused by 'the wish of declaring himself king'.

shuch treatment should be acted by citizenship 'naturally', as an event of self-evidence, Phoenicaean intellectuals say

the law has so banished death penalty, and same time a pre-judicial death sentence has been keeped. some prominent figures say that the comma can t be trusted 'in each letter'.

There is approximately 1.2 executions per day in the whole of the Russian Empire (as of 2018)


Crimes that can earn the death penalty are:

Rape
Murder
Treason
Robbery (Including Fraud) in excess of 1 billion Rubles.
The purchase or sale of black market organs.


The method for those who have not a) served in the military or b) been awarded a "special favor" is hanging. For groups that meet requirement A or B, firing squads are used.
Executions are announced to and open to the public, but not brought outside prisons.

The last vote for abolition of the death penalty anywhere in the country (Riga oblast) saw the measure defeated with 41% voting for abolition. This is above most national polls on attitudes for abolition of the death penalty.


It is also worth noting that the purchase or sale of an executed person's organs is itself a capital offense (and they can't be harvested for donation without the dead's consent either). Flesh of the strangulated is seen as fundamentally unclean and shootings normally dont leave any organs recoverable (those that are are still illegal to buy/sell).

Within the Kingdom of Crookfur it is theoretically possible for a Crown Advocate to seek the death penalty for any offence but no prosecuter would risk thier job starting the difficult and expensive process for anything bar the most serious of offences falling under the purveiw of the High Courts with the most heinous of aggravating circumstances.

After the delivery of a verdict the judge will inquire as to any special considerations or conditions either the defence or prosecution wish to present before he passes sentence and at this point the prosecution will but forward thier request for a capitol sentence.

At the this point the judge sets a date for a capitol sentence hearing 3-6 months in the future. This is to allow time for all forensic and technical evidence to be blind tested/reviewed by third party sources, the guilty to be assessed as to the danger they pose to the public and the possibility of thier rehabilitation and for three Lord Advocates to review the entire case separately and independently.

If all the evidence maintains its integrity, the guilty is judge to pose an ongoing risk with no reasonable chance of rehabilitation and a majority of the review panel agree with the verdict then the capitol sentence will be passed and at some point in the three weeks after the hearing the guilty will be quietly subjected to nitrogen asphyxiation in thier sleep.

Currently the Kingdom executes approximately 5 individuals per year.

First Answers to Questions
— The country overwhelmingly supports capital punishment.
— Executions are fairly occuring but not usually as high as the average for the United States.
— Death penalty has remained legal and is used every year.
— The country overwhelmingly is against abolitionism.
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— Capital punishment may be used for many different crimes: examples include the following–First-Degree Murder, Rape, Attempted Rape, Sexual Assault, Child Sex Abuse, Child Sex Trafficking, Drug-Trafficking, Foreign and/or Domestic Terrorism, Blood-Treason, High Treason, Blasphemy, Abettal to Clerical Dereliction, Religious Vandalism, and Desertion.
— Here are the Execution Methods.

Texkentuck Monarchy Republic Federation doesn't allow the death penalty but we do have high security cells for very dangerous individuals. The Texkentuck Federation Security Agency does it's best to clandestinely stop Texkentucks foreign adversaries and enemies who are dangerous. The TFS makes sure citizens follow the law and the justice department of Texkentuck makes sure criminals have a fair trial.....


Our nation has a strong prison system...

Prison system history-

Texkentuck prison was built in the 1900's by General Borris Vondracula who was a military leader and was an immigrant to the Texkentuck Republic. Gen. Vondracula was in the foreign military of the Bavarianolini Empire which was the empire which doesn't exist once Texkentuck stomped out the uprising and prisoned the great general. The great general faught most of his life for the Bavarianolini Royal Monarchy and when imprisoned spent 5 years studying and grew to understand Texkentuck liberated most of his people and had a change of heart toward the early nomads of the small early days of Texkentuck. The great general expressed often his change of heart. After hearing his plea in court the state decided to free the great general. He spent his days at the bars of Texkentuck. He heard about a big investor named Reginald of Africa. The great general asked around which places he spent most of his time. It's unknown which bar in the northern woods they talked in but the great general was determined to give back and thought what better way then to offer advice on a sound prison system of justice. Reginald of Africa for years has been planning the great prison all through his law enforcement career. It took 20 years for the prison to be built and neither one saw it complete. After 20 years in 1930 the prison was built. The first warden was Gregory Vortechlinkophf who ruled the prison by the writing of the great general. It was a system of fear at first to earning freedom and in the end redemption.



This is the new entry to the prison which is the main entrance. Busses pull up and through the doors the chain gang walks. Everyone no matter the crime goes through these doors. Over the loud speaker at the entrance is the words repeated on the walls.


Through out the prison are diffirent blocks that look similar to this block. There are 5 blocks.
5. Block 5 is for those who just arived.
4. Block 4 is for those who are moved from block 5 to make room for new arivals.
3. Block 3 is for those who have been recognized for good behavior and have regained some freedom such as having their own toilet, newspaper and toiletries. Once a day in block 4 during cell block checks prisoners are asked to step out of their cell. A team comes in to sanitize anywhere the prisoner chose to you the restroom and the team take the prisoner to the showers where they are watched and given commodities. All commodities must be dropped in a ben and the prisoner is checked before returning to the cell. Cell block 3 is for responsible prisoners.
2. Cell block 2 is for those prisoners who are there on good behavior and have less the 10 years left in prison with most freedoms. It's like being in school.
1. Cell block 1 is for those who will be released in 2 years. Here they are helped by job counselors and treated almost like free citizens.
Prisoners from cell block 4 to 1 have the rights of visitation with family members by being walked to the front entrance for face to face interaction with out glass between partys.

Through out all cell blocks prisoners are told that their are programs to help them and the right professionals are called in to help them. Prisoners from cell block 4 down to 1 can attend the daily prison Mass. Prisoners in cell block 4 can receive communion only. Also cell blocks 3 to 1 have visiting rights. Prisoners are escorted by guards to the front of the prison to be visited. No glass divider and face to face interaction is allowed. Guards believe this calms prisoners down to know out there is humanity that can be achieved.


This is a new section of the prison for guards to enter into the worse block which is for prisoners of no control. Block 0


cell in block 0
When prisoners are too out of control they are sedated. Also this is only for those who act out on purpose. Prisoners who are mentally insane tend to stay in a decent cell with restroom and padded walls.


THE BAD BOY CELL: This is for prisoners who are not sane by choice and choose to act out. They have nothing but a cot and they see a sign on the inside and out that say high voltage. They can't touch the bars.


This is cell block 1: This is the block for good behavior and everyone who is a prisoner is here for two years or less. Most freedoms are regained and guards treat you as a citizen completely. You can move freely about in this block but after 6:00pm everyone must be in there cell. Upon release prisoners know they are followed secretly by Colonels who are agents that work for the Committee for State Security for 15 years upon release. A counselor who represents the Committee for State Security for the first year will check up on all prisoners who are reformed and have joined society to make sure they are doing ok and to help them get to the right programs for newly reformed and freed from prison citizens.


TEXKENTUCK PRISON YARD. PRISONERS FROM ALL BLOCKS ARE TAKEN HERE THROUGH OUT THE DAY IN SMALL NUMBER. Most drinking is exchanged and made in the prison yard. Prisoners who are on good behavior most days guards will allow for them to make moonshine under supervision and they can take some back to their cell. Smoking is allowed too. This is considered a basic commodity for coping. Guards who are disrespected by prisoners have no problem taking their booze and putting them back in their cell.

This Texkentuck prison is visited once a year by the World Assembly inspection council to see if the prison is in compliance. This nation doesn't allow the death penalty.


If the prison is overcrowded or if the prisoners are here for life are overcrowding the state gives them enough Texk Marks and flies them on a prison plane to another nation who is willing to accept them or they are sent away on a boat and told not to return because their purchase is the complete forfeit of Texkentuck Federation.

Also we have a military prison-

Texkentuck Snowland Plain is remotely a mountain region with lots of snow. Some people live here and Ice fish. It's most noted for the Capital City which is more of a small town which is overrun with the Texkentuck Armed Forces Units who maintain the military prison known as Snowland Plain Penitentiary.