18-U.S.C.-1118

§1118 – Murder By A Federal Prisoner

Pathway

Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 51 > Section 1118

Details

• Reference: Section 1118
• Legend: §1118 – Murder By A Federal Prisoner
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

(a) Offense.—A person who, while confined in a Federal correctional institution under a sentence for a term of life imprisonment, commits the murder of another shall be punished by death or by life imprisonment.

(b) Definitions.—In this section—

Federal correctional institution means any Federal prison, Federal correctional facility, Federal community program center, or Federal halfway house.

murder means a first degree or second degree murder (as defined in section 1111).

term of life imprisonment means a sentence for the term of natural life, a sentence commuted to natural life, an indeterminate term of a minimum of at least fifteen years and a maximum of life, or an unexecuted sentence of death.

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, §60005(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970.)

Codification

Another section 1118 was renumbered section 1122 of this title.

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