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Senate Roll Call 274, 101st Congress · October 26, 1989

To provide for the penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of release for acts of terrorism against United States nationals abroad. — TO AMEND S 1798, DEATH PENALTY FOR TERRORISTS, TO ALLOW FOR THE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY FOR THE TERRORIST MURDER OF U.S. CITIZENS ABROAD.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

29 yea · 70 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 29 nay
Republican5 yea · 39 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1798 ↗

A bill to provide for the imposition of the death penalty for the terrorist murder of United States nationals abroad.

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.85): Providing life imprisonment as an alternative to the death penalty is less punitive.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (29)

Nay (70)

Not voting or present (1)

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