---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1120"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1120"
heading: "Murder by escaped prisoners"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1120"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 51 — Homicide"
---

# §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](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5), having escaped from a Federal correctional institution where the [person](/usc/18/229F.md?p=5) was confined under a sentence for a term of life imprisonment, kills another shall be punished as provided in sections [1111](/usc/18/1111.md) and 1112.

## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1996—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 104–294 substituted “Federal correctional institution” for “Federal prison”.