Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 35 — Escape and Rescue
§ 753. Rescue to prevent execution
Statutory text
Whoever, by force, sets at liberty or rescues any person found guilty in any court of the United States of any capital crime, while going to execution or during execution, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty-five years, or both.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 753
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(O) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 753
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $25,000”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $25,000”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(O) in sections 32, 114, 753, 1028, 1365, 1512, 1792, and 2118 by striking “not more than $25,000” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 248 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 142, 35 Stat. 1114).
Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $25,000”.
Credits
1948–1994 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735
- 1994Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(O), , 108 Stat. 2148.
Show as published
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(O), , 108 Stat. 2148.)