A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to provide in certain circumstances the death penalty for kidnaping, and to establish a rebuttable presumption with respect to certain unexplained disappearances.

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Introduced

5 March 1974

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Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summary

Establishes the death penalty for kidnapping if the person has not been liberated unharmed. States that failure of a person, who voluntarily travels with another, to arrive after a ressonable time creates a rebuttable presumption that the person has been decoyed or inveigled.

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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/13255
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