Senate Roll Call 659, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974
TO AMEND S. 1401 BY REQUIRING EXECUTIONS TO BE CONDUCTED BEFORE THE PUBLIC.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Requiring public executions does not clearly align with reform or punitive criminal justice axis.
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 (11)
Nay (81)
- George David Aiken
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (9)
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Michael Joseph MansfieldDid not vote
- Walter Frederick MondaleDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
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