Statute · United States Code
18 U.S.C. § 753 — Rescue to prevent execution
18 U.S.C. § 753
- Type
- Statute
- Source
- United States Code
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2025-01-06
- Topic
- capital-markets-and-corporate-governance
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.
Citator
18 U.S.C. § 753 — Rescue to prevent execution is in force in the current edition of the Code, and nothing recorded condemns it.
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.