---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3598"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3598"
heading: "Special provisions for Indian country"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3598"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 228 — Death Sentence"
---

# §3598. Special provisions for Indian country


Notwithstanding sections [1152](/usc/18/1152.md) and [1153](/usc/18/1153.md), no person subject to the criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government shall be subject to a capital sentence under this chapter for any [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2) the Federal jurisdiction for which is predicated solely on Indian country (as defined in [section 1151 of this title](/usc/18/1151.md)) and which has occurred within the boundaries of Indian country, unless the governing body of the tribe has elected that this chapter have effect over land and persons subject to its criminal jurisdiction.


## Source credit

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