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Senate Roll Call 379, 103rd Congress · November 17, 1993

To provide for imposition of the penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of release rather than imposition of the death penalty. — (SENATE REJECTED THE LEVIN AMENDMENT NO. 1204, TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMPOSITION OF THE PENALTY OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF RELEASE RATHER THAN IMPOSITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

26 yea · 73 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 33 nay
Republican6 yea · 38 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1607 ↗

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 “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.90): Replacing the death penalty with life imprisonment moves away from the most punitive sentence.

    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 (26)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (1)

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