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House Roll Call 100, 104th Congress · February 8, 1995

(HOUSE REJECTED THE WATT OF NORTH CAROLINA AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PERMIT STATE PRISONERS SENTENCED TO DEATH OR TO PRISON TO FILE A SECOND FEDERAL HABEAS PETITION IF IT IS SHOWN, THROUGH NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE, THAT THE PERSON WAS INNOCENT AND PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN ACQUITED HAD THE EVIDENCE BEEN PRESENTED AT TRIAL.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

151 yea · 280 nayFailed3 not voting or present
Democrat149 yea · 47 nay
Republican1 yea · 233 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 729 ↗

Effective Death Penalty Act of 1995

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): Permitting second federal habeas petitions based on new innocence evidence expands prisoner rights.

    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 (151)

Nay (280)

Not voting or present (3)

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