18 U.S.C. § 1120: Murder by escaped prisoners
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
- CHAPTER 51—HOMICIDE
(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.
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