Barrett v. United States · ¶26

Subsection (j) arrived “decades after subsection (c).” Lora, 599 U. S., at 457. Congress added it in 1994, in a provision entitled “Death Penalty for Gun Murders During Federal Crimes of Violence and Drug Trafficking Crimes.” § 60013, 108 Stat. 1973. The new subsection supplied a different penalty scheme for subsection (c) violations that cause death. Unlike subsection (c), subsection (j) did not impose mandatory minimums. Instead, it authorized significant maximum sentences—including, true to the new provision's name, the death penalty if the underlying violation is a murder:

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