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Senate Roll Call 654, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974

TO AMEND S. 1401, A BILL TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA FOR THE MANDATORY IMPOSITION OF THE SENTENCE OF DEATH, BY MAKING THE DEATH PENALTY PERMISSIVE RATHER THAN MANDATORY IF AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES EXIST.

41 yea · 47 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 19 nay
Republican10 yea · 28 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1401 ↗

A bill to establish rational criteria for the mandatory imposition of the sentence of death.

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): Making the death penalty permissive rather than mandatory reduces sentence severity.

    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 (43)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (10)

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