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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "18 U.S.C. § 1118"
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description: "Murder by a Federal prisoner"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 18
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title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
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chapter_number: "51"
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chapter_name: "HOMICIDE"
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section: "1118"
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citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1118"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 1118 - Murder by a Federal prisoner
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## Text
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(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.
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(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.
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(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60005(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970.)
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## Notes
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Editorial Notes
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Codification Another section 1118 was renumbered section 1122 of this title.
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