Suvio Bellaron

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Suvio Bellaron is one of the Gallente Federation Senators for Intaki. He is best know for his attempts to get the Senate to ban capital punishment in the Federation.

Political positions

Opposition to death penalty

Bellaron started out not opposing the death penalty outright, but objecting to the manner of the public execution of Anvent Eturrer—a former Grand Admiral of the Federation Navy—for treason. This led him to propose a ban on public executions in YC111. The bill was ultimately defeated by procedural means.

By YC121 Bellaron's views had evolved to the point where he proposed a ban on capital punishement altogether.

Crime and punishment

Contrary to what may appear from his opposition to the death penalty, Bellaron is not what could be described as "soft on crime". In the context of his proposed ban on public executions, he said on the Senate floor

"There is no question that Eturrer's death sentence should be upheld. The legitimacy of the sentence is not in dispute; rather, the manner of the execution was deplorable"

Introducing his YC121 bill, he further said

"As a matter of ugly necessity, we must limit the legal protections of those who break the law – that much is not in contention."

Criticism

As a result of his legislative proposals against the death penalty, Bellaron has been described by political opponents as a borderline traitor and an Intaki anarcho-pacifist ideologue intent on trespassing on the rights of sovereign member states of the Federation.

Support

His first attempt to limit public executions did not receive much backing. However, his TC121 bill banning capital punishment garnered support from a wide section of the public, including on the Jin-Mei home planet of Chandeille (Lirsautton V), as well as about half of all Senators though none from the regions of Everyshore or Solitude.

Progress of the YC121 bill

Bellaron's YC121 bill banning capital punishment was introduced on January 18. It moved out of committee, to be debated by the Senate plenary, on March 18. Opponents of Bellaron's ban were able to delay debate on the draft bill for months by means of procedural tricks. The bill was debated at least twice on the Senate floor in the month of May. After further procedural delays it returned to the Senate floor in November.