Section 219 Of Chapter 5. Attempts To Kill From California Penal Code >> Title 8. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 5.
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. Every person who unlawfully throws out a switch, removes a
rail, or places any obstruction on any railroad with the intention of
derailing any passenger, freight or other train, car or engine and
thus derails the same, or who unlawfully places any dynamite or other
explosive material or any other obstruction upon or near the track
of any railroad with the intention of blowing up or derailing any
such train, car or engine and thus blows up or derails the same, or
who unlawfully sets fire to any railroad bridge or trestle over which
any such train, car or engine must pass with the intention of
wrecking such train, car or engine, and thus wrecks the same, is
guilty of a felony and punishable with death or imprisonment in the
state prison for life without possibility of parole in cases where
any person suffers death as a proximate result thereof, or
imprisonment in the state prison for life with the possibility of
parole, in cases where no person suffers death as a proximate result
thereof. The penalty shall be determined pursuant to Sections 190.3
and 190.4.