Senate Roll Call 663, 93rd Congress · March 13, 1974
TO PASS S. 1401.
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 JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.95): Passing the bill establishes mandatory death penalty criteria, increasing punishment 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 (54)
- 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
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (35)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (12)
- Wallace Foster BennettDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Hiram Leong FongDid 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
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
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