Senate Roll Call 358, 103rd Congress · November 8, 1993
To prohibit the imposition of a sentence of death for crimes committed by persons under the age of 18 years. — (SENATE TABLED THE SIMON AMENDMENT NO. 1132, TO PROHIBIT THE IMPOSITION OF A SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR CRIMES COMMITTED BY PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 18 YEARS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993
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 “Punitive”
model(0.95): Tabling a ban on the juvenile death penalty preserves punitive sentencing options.
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 (52)
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (41)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Russell D. Feingold
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (7)
- Paul D. CoverdellDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Byron L. DorganDid not vote
- Kay Bailey HutchisonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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