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Public Law 75–367
To provide for the manner of inflicting the punishment of death.
Approved June 19, 1937
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the manner of inflicting the punishment of death.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 323 of the Criminal Code of the United States (U. S. C., title 18, sec. 542) be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 323.
The manner of inflicting the punishment of death shall be the manner prescribed by the laws of the State within which the sentence is imposed. The United States marshal charged with the execution of the sentence may use available State or local facilities and the services of an appropriate State or local official or employ some other person for such purpose, and pay the cost thereof in
Where State has no provision for infliction of death penalty.
an amount approved by the Attorney General. If the laws of the State within which sentence is imposed make no provision for the infliction of the penalty of death, then the court shall designate some other State in which such sentence shall be executed in the manner prescribed by the laws thereof.”
Approved, June 19, 1937.