18 USC Sec. 1118
01/26/98

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 51 - HOMICIDE

HEADING

Sec. 1118. Murder by a Federal prisoner

STATUTE

(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.

SOURCE

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

MISCELLANEOUS

PRIOR PROVISIONS

Another section 1118 was renumbered section 1122 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 1120, 3592 of this title.