§ 3596. — Implementation of a sentence of death.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC3596]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART II--CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 228--DEATH SENTENCE
Sec. 3596. Implementation of a sentence of death
(a) In General.--A person who has been sentenced to death pursuant
to this chapter shall be committed to the custody of the Attorney
General until exhaustion of the procedures for appeal of the judgment of
conviction and for review of the sentence. When the sentence is to be
implemented, the Attorney General shall release the person sentenced to
death to the custody of a United States marshal, who shall supervise
implementation of the sentence in the manner prescribed by the law of
the State in which the sentence is imposed. If the law of the State does
not provide for implementation of a sentence of death, the court shall
designate another State, the law of which does provide for the
implementation of a sentence of death, and the sentence shall be
implemented in the latter State in the manner prescribed by such law.
(b) Pregnant Woman.--A sentence of death shall not be carried out
upon a woman while she is pregnant.
(c) Mental Capacity.--A sentence of death shall not be carried out
upon a person who is mentally retarded. A sentence of death shall not be
carried out upon a person who, as a result of mental disability, lacks
the mental capacity to understand the death penalty and why it was
imposed on that person.
(Added Pub. L. 103-322, title VI, Sec. 60002(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108
Stat. 1967.)
