                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                          CHAPTER 51--HOMICIDE
 
Sec. 1120. Murder by escaped prisoners

    (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. 103-322, title VI, Sec. 60012(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 1973; amended Pub. L. 104-294, title VI, Sec. 601(c)(2), Oct. 11, 
1996, 110 Stat. 3499.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 104-294 substituted ``Federal 
correctional institution'' for ``Federal prison''.
