Title 18 of the U.S. Code § 1118 - Murder by a Federal prisoner
Full text of § 1118 from Title 18 of the United States Code.
§ 1118. Murder by a Federal prisoner
(a)
(b)
"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.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
Another section 1118 was renumbered section 1122 of this title.
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