Senate Roll Call 658, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974

TO AMEND S. 1401, BY INCREASING THE DEGREE OF PROOF FOR THE AGGRAVATING FACTORS FROM THE STANDARD OF "PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE" TO THE STANDARD "BEYOND A RESONABLE DOUBT."

49 yea · 43 nay8 not voting or present

Democrat35 yea · 18 nay

Republican15 yea · 23 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other0 yea · 1 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): Raising the burden of proof for aggravating factors makes imposing death sentences harder.
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 (50)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (8)

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