Peter DeFazio on Crime

• Rated 85% by the NAPO, indicating a tough-on-crime stance. (Dec 2014)
• Facilitate recovering crime victim restitution fees. (Apr 2011)
• Voted YES on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes. (Apr 2009)
• Voted YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society. (Nov 2007)
• More funding and stricter sentencing for hate crimes. (Apr 2001)
• Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)
• Rated 78% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
• Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
• Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
• Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
• Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)