                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 51--HOMICIDE
 
Sec. 1118. Murder by a Federal prisoner

    (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.
    (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.

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title VI, Sec. 60005(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 1970.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Another section 1118 was renumbered section 1122 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1120, 3592 of this title.
