18-U.S.C.-753

§753 – Rescue to Prevent Execution

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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 35 > Section 753

Details

• Reference: Section 753
• Legend: §753 – Rescue to Prevent Execution
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whoever, by force, sets at liberty or rescues any person found guilty in any court of the United States of any capital crime, while going to execution or during execution, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(O), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §248 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §142, 35 Stat. 1114).

Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted fined under this title for fined not more than $25,000.

U.S. Encyclopedia of Law Coverage

18-U.S.C.-706A in the Legal Encyclopedia: Criminal Law

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18-U.S.C.-753 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Crimes

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