{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s1118","title":18,"num":"\u00a7\u202f1118.","heading":"Murder by a Federal prisoner","text":"\u00a7\u202f1118.\nMurder by a Federal prisoner\n(a)\nOffense.\u2014\nA 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.\n(b)\nDefinitions.\u2014\nIn this section\u2014\n\u201cFederal correctional institution\u201d means any Federal prison, Federal correctional facility, Federal community program center, or Federal halfway house.\n\u201cmurder\u201d means a first degree or second degree murder (as defined in section 1111).\n\u201cterm of life imprisonment\u201d 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.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t18/s1118.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1118","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f1118."},{"t":"heading","text":"Murder by a Federal prisoner"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1118/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Offense.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t18/s1118/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"In this section\u2014","children":[{"t":"p","text":"\u201cFederal correctional institution\u201d means any Federal prison, Federal correctional facility, Federal community program center, or Federal halfway house.","tail":"\n"},{"t":"p","text":"\u201cmurder\u201d means a first degree or second degree murder (as defined in section 1111).","tail":"\n"},{"t":"p","text":"\u201cterm of life imprisonment\u201d 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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}