This legislation, known as the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act , aims to comprehensively end the practice of capital punishment under federal law. Its core provision states that, effective immediately upon its enactment, no individual may be sentenced to death or subsequently executed for any violation of federal law. Furthermore, the bill addresses individuals currently on federal death row by mandating that any person sentenced to death for a federal offense prior to the Act's enactment shall be resentenced . This ensures that the prohibition applies both prospectively to future cases and retrospectively to existing death sentences, thereby abolishing the federal death penalty entirely.