Title 18 U.S. Code Section 241 reads as follows:
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;
or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;
and if death results in the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
https://trac.syr.edu/laws/18/18USCOO241.html
Furthermore, if somebody is harassed or deprived of their legal and constitutional rights to the point where they commit suicide, or become ill and expire as some other consequence of the conspiracy to deny them their rights, then a capital crime has been committed.
For example:
If a conspiracy to harass a citizen restricted his ability to earn money to keep himself properly fed and housed and he were to die as a result of living such a life, the conspirators have committed a capital crime, just as they would have done had they conspired to prevent him from receiving proper medical treatment for an illness.
Or, if they conspired to restrict his freedom of movement and he was unable to flee a natural disaster, they would have committed a capital crime that could be investigated by Federal Agents and tried in a Federal Court.
The possibility of life imprisonment or capital punishment also applies if the citizen is kidnapped, sexually assaulted, or there is an intent to sexually assault, or an attempt to kill.
These are extreme examples to demonstrate the circumstances in which organized stalking is a capital crime under U.S. Federal Law.
But not so extreme that there are no stalking groups currently risking such a charge.
In fact, the threat and fact of sexual assault is fairly common.
In the less extreme case, whereby a citizen is not harried to his death, but merely prevented from living the normal life of an American citizen, it is still a felony, punishable by a longer prison term than many burglarizes, assaults, and contraband offences.
And nearly ALL stalking activity involving two or more persons acting together, commits this felony.
Even if a lone stalker enlists the help of another for a single part of his stalking campaign against a citizen, a conspiracy to deny that citizen his rights has probably taken place.
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