18 USC Sec. 1120
01/26/98

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

HEADING

Sec. 1120. Murder by escaped prisoners

STATUTE

(a) Definition. - In this section, ''Federal correctional institution'' and ''term of life imprisonment'' have the meanings stated in section 1118.

(b) Offense and Penalty. - A person, having escaped from a Federal correctional institution where the person was confined under a sentence for a term of life imprisonment, kills another shall be punished as provided in sections 1111 and 1112.

SOURCE

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title VI, Sec. 60012(a), Sept. 13, 1994,
108 Stat. 1973; amended Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, Sec. 601(c)(2),
Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3499.)

MISCELLANEOUS

AMENDMENTS

1996 - Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 104-294 substituted ''Federal correctional institution'' for ''Federal prison''.