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title: "18 U.S.C. § 1120"
description: "Murder by escaped prisoners"
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title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
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chapter_name: "HOMICIDE"
section: "1120"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1120"
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# 18 U.S.C. § 1120 - Murder by escaped prisoners
## Text
(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.
(Added Pub. L. 103322, title VI, § 60012(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1973; amended Pub. L. 104294, title VI, § 601(c)(2), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3499.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments1996—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 104294 substituted “Federal correctional institution” for “Federal prison”.