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Senate Roll Call 455, 101st Congress · June 29, 1990

To provide for imposition of the penalty of life imprisonment without release rather than imposition of the death penalty. — TO AMEND S 1970, OMNIBUS CRIME BILL, TO PROVIDE A MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT RELEASE RATHER THAN IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

25 yea · 73 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 33 nay
Republican5 yea · 38 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1970 ↗

A bill to establish constitutional procedures for the imposition of the sentence of death, and for other purposes.

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(0.95): Replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment is a reform-oriented criminal justice policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Substituting life imprisonment for the death penalty does not directly affect fiscal spending.

    Tagged by: keyword:omnibus

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (25)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (2)

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