                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                       CHAPTER 228--DEATH SENTENCE
 
Sec. 3597. Use of State facilities

    (a) In General.--A United States marshal charged with supervising 
the implementation of a sentence of death may use appropriate State or 
local facilities for the purpose, may use the services of an appropriate 
State or local official or of a person such an official employs for the 
purpose, and shall pay the costs thereof in an amount approved by the 
Attorney General.
    (b) Excuse of an Employee on Moral or Religious Grounds.--No 
employee of any State department of corrections, the United States 
Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, or the United 
States Marshals Service, and no employee providing services to that 
department, bureau, or service under contract shall be required, as a 
condition of that employment or contractual obligation, to be in 
attendance at or to participate in any prosecution or execution under 
this section if such participation is contrary to the moral or religious 
convictions of the employee. In this subsection, ``participation in 
executions'' includes personal preparation of the condemned individual 
and the apparatus used for execution and supervision of the activities 
of other personnel in carrying out such activities.

(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title VI, Sec. 60002(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 
Stat. 1968.)
