18 U.S.C. § 1120
Section 1120 · Murder by escaped prisoners
This is § 60012 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case People v. Gladney (2010)
Most recently applied in United States v. Hausa (June 2017)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(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.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1996—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 104–294 substituted “Federal correctional institution” for “Federal prison”.