There are Federal Murder statutes that cover military bases , Federal buildings etc. There are also Federal statutes for murder of Federal Employees acting in the color of their positions and those assisting them as well as airplanes, boats and other means of conveyance in which states haven't jurisdiction. Generally they work it out with the state as nobody can be tried by the federal government for a basically similar crime.
Here in Subtitle (B) specifically Section 727 it comments on employees.
I believe the young Pvt who was killed was invited to the as a recruiting effort and thus was assisting the Recruiter. That may qualify him as a murder victim under federal statute. The recruiter was a victim without with little doubt of attempted murder or other appropriate charges under federal Law.
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Subtitle B: Criminal Procedures - Makes penalties imposed upon an individual committing an offense on an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States applicable regardless of whether such individual is later found in the United States. Grants jurisdiction over such an offense if: (1) a U.S. national was or would have been on board the aircraft; (2) an offender is a U.S. national; or (3) an offender is found in the United States.
Provides that if the victim of specified offenses is an internationally protected person outside the United States, the United States may exercise jurisdiction if: (1) the victim is a representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States; (2) an offender is a U.S. national; or (3) an offender is found in the United States.
(Sec. 722) Provides that there is U.S. jurisdiction over specified maritime violence: (1) regardless of whether the activity is prohibited by the State in which it takes place; and (2) committed by a U.S. national or by a stateless person whose habitual residence is in the United States, regardless of whether the activity takes place on a ship flying the flag of a foreign country or outside the United States.
(Sec. 723) Sets penalties for conspiring to commit various terrorism-related offenses.
(Sec. 724) Expands Federal jurisdiction over bomb threats.
(Sec. 725) Modifies prohibitions regarding the use of weapons of mass destruction to include threats to use such weapons and to specify that, to violate such prohibitions, such use must be without lawful authority and the results of such use (or threat) must affect (would have affected) interstate or foreign commerce.
Includes within the definition of "weapon of mass destruction" any weapon designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors.
Imposes penalties (including the death penalty, if death results) upon any U.S. national who, without lawful authority and outside the United States, uses, threatens, attempts, or conspires to use a weapon of mass destruction.
(Sec. 726) Adds terrorism offenses to the money laundering statute.
(Sec. 727) Sets penalties for: (1) killing or attempting to kill any U.S. officer engaged in, or on account of, the performance of official duties or any person assisting such an officer or employee; and (2) threatening to assault, kidnap, or murder former Federal officers and employees.
Specifies that Federal criminal code provisions regarding influencing, impeding, or retaliating against a Federal official by threatening or injuring a family member shall not interfere with the investigative authority of the United States Secret Service.
Revises a provision regarding the meaning of the term "deadly or dangerous weapon" in the prohibition against assaulting Federal officers or employees to include a weapon intended to cause death or danger but that fails to do so by reason of a defective component.
(Sec. 728) Includes among the aggravating factors for homicide that the defendant intentionally killed or attempted to kill more than one person in a single criminal episode.
Not sure of this and I do recall homicides always being prosecuted by the State, even some on military bases. However, murder charges by the Federal government have been applied to at least one murder of a child. |
