---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3598"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3598"
heading: "Special provisions for Indian country"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3598"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 228 — Death Sentence"
---

# §3598. Special provisions for Indian country


Notwithstanding sections [1152](/usc/18/1152.md) and [1153](/usc/18/1153.md), no person subject to the criminal jurisdiction of an Indian tribal government shall be subject to a capital sentence under this chapter for any offense the Federal jurisdiction for which is predicated solely on [Indian country](/usc/18/1156.md) (as defined in [section 1151 of this title](/usc/18/1151.md)) and which has occurred within the boundaries of [Indian country](/usc/18/1156.md), unless the governing body of the tribe has elected that this chapter have effect over land and persons subject to its criminal jurisdiction.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60002(a), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1968.)