# Prohibition of Interment or Memorialization in National Cemeteries and Certain State Cemeteries Due to Commission of Capital Crimes
> **US Department of Veterans Affairs** · Final rule. · Published 2008-06-23 · Effective 2008-06-23 · 73 FR 35351
## Document
- **Document number:** E8-14038
- **Category:** va-other
- **Agency:** US Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Federal Register citation:** 73 FR 35351
- **CFR reference:** 38 CFR 38
- **Publication date:** 2008-06-23
- **Effective date:** 2008-06-23
## Abstract

This final rule amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) regulations to implement section 662 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109-163). Section 662 of the Act prohibits interment and memorialization in a national or State veterans cemetery of certain persons who have been convicted of a Federal or State capital crime and whose conviction is final, unless such a person's sentence was commuted by the President or the Governor of a State. The final rule implements statutory provisions to ensure that the remains of certain persons who have committed Federal or State capital crimes are not interred or memorialized in a national or State veterans cemetery.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/06/23/E8-14038/prohibition-of-interment-or-memorialization-in-national-cemeteries-and-certain-state-cemeteries-due)
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