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OOC: In April, Tezikstan wrote an otherwise-unheralded proposal entitled WA Ban On The Killing Of Innocent Civilians Act. I originally planned to propose what you see below as a much-simplified rewrite of their original draft for their consideration before the thread effectively "died." Yet I am now pleased to present the below draft as an independent proposal after some positive discussions with Tezikstan - who, for the record, has told me that it "looks a lot better" than their original.
For The Innocent
A resolution to improve worldwidehumansapient and civil rights.Category: Civil RightsEffect: StrongProposed by: Tinhampton
The General Assembly enacts as follows:Co-authored with Tezikstan.
- No government may kill any of their inhabitants for a particular crime if they have not committed, nor are currently committing, that crime.
- No government shall kill any person, who is not an enemy belligerent soldier during time of war, without giving prior notice of their being killed.
- The immediate family of any person who is killed in contravention of Article a shall be entitled to request compensation from their government, the amount of which in each case shall be determined by the WA Commission on Human Rights.
- This resolution does not define the legality of capital punishment.