S 1758 · 93th Congress · Crime and Law Enforcement
A bill to implement the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Judiciary.(1973-05-09)
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Provides that whoever being a national of the United States or otherwise under or within the jurisdiction of the United States, willfully without justification cause, commits, within or without the territory of the United States in time of peace or in time of war, any of the following acts with the intent to destroy by means of the commission of that act, or with the intent to carry out a plan to destroy, the whole or a substantial part of a national, ethnic, racial or religious group shall be guilty of genocide: (1) kills members of the group; (2) causes serious bodily injury to members of the group; (3) causes the permanent impairment of the mental faculties of members of the group by means of torture, deprivation of physical or physiological needs, surgical operation, introduction of drugs or other foreign substances into the bodies of such members, or subjection to psychological or psychiatric treatment calculated to permanently impair the mental processes, or nervous system, or motor functions of such members; (4) subjects the group to cruel, unusual, or inhumane conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group or a substantial part thereof; (…
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