To acknowledge the crime of lynching, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-hr-8651
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Amash, Justin [L-MI-3]
Introduced: 2020-10-23
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure and sentencing

Hate crimes

Racial and ethnic relations

Violent crime
Latest action: action_date: 2020-10-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-10-23
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill establishes a new criminal civil rights violation for lynching. </p> <p>Specifically, an individual who acts with one or more people to commit certain civil rights offenses (e.g., a hate crime act) that result in death is subject to criminal penalties.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8651 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 23, 2020 Mr. Amash introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To acknowledge the crime of lynching, and for other purposes.

1. Prohibiting lynching Section 249(a) of title 18, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following: (4) Offenses involving lynching (A) In general Whoever, acting with one or more individuals, engages in conduct described in paragraph (1) or (2) that results in death, shall be subject to the same penalties as prescribed in those paragraphs. (B) Limitation on prosecution A person who is prosecuted for unlawful conduct under this paragraph may not be prosecuted for the same conduct under paragraph (1) or (2). .