Has anybody been sentenced for that?
There've been several cases of police being sentenced under 18/242, Deprivation of Civil Rights under Color of Law, the most well-known being the L.A. cops involved in the Rodney King beating and the prosecution of sheriff's deputies involved in 1960s civil rights-era killings. Former Long Beach police officer Joseph Ferguson was sentenced for both 18/241 and 18/242 violations during a series of home invasions over a two-year period, noone was killed in those incidents, so Ferguson received *only* 97 months in federal prison. There were other LAPD and LASO officers similarly charged and convicted.
A Prince Georges Co Maryland K9 officer who thought it would be amusing to let his K9 partner chew on a homeless man was convicted under 18/242 and got 10 years, though a conspiracy violation under 18/241 would have been possible for the conversatiuon with another officer about asking if the dog could "take a bite" out of the victims, and a swecond Prince George's Co officer also beating the man afterward. Again, the victim didn't die, so the full penalty of life imprisonment or the death penalty wasn't called for. There have been others as well.
There is an ongoing case in which police may have been responsible for the death of a handcuffed and hogtied captive who was tasered, all after having been peppersprayed/maced and beaten, and a EMT/paramedic at the scene was kept from treating or examining the victim at the scene. That may become a 18/241 or 18/242 case, or may be handled by the state as being a death resulting in the commission of a felony, by the cops, who need not be first convicted of the federal felony to face the state *death during a felony* murder charge. But if they're convicted under the federal charges, the *Safe Streets Act* which kicks in if a weapon was used during the commission of a federal Civil Rights violation [as with the Ramos/Compeon Border Patrol Agents case in Texas] then it's mandatory that the maximum penalty be applied...which could be either life imprisonment or a trip to the gurney and needle at the federal pen in Terre Haute. We shall see how that one goes.