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[CITE: 18USC753]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                      CHAPTER 35--ESCAPE AND RESCUE
 
Sec. 753. Rescue to prevent execution

    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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735; Pub. L. 103-322, title XXXIII, 
Sec. 330016(1)(O), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 248 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 
321, Sec. 142, 35 Stat. 1114).
    Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-322 substituted ``fined under this title'' for 
``fined not more than $25,000''.