18 USC 241

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TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 13 - CIVIL RIGHTS
241. Conspi!"# !$!ins% i$&%s
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 nited 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 from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include #idnapping or
an attempt to #idnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse,
or an attempt to #ill, 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$
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Clause ma#ing conspirator ineligible to hold office was omitted as incongruous because it attaches ineligibility to hold
office to a person who may be a private citi<en and who was convicted of conspiracy to violate a specific statute$
There seems to be no reason for imposing such a penalty in the case of one individual crime, in view of the fact that
other crimes do not carry such a severe conse=uence$ The experience of the Department of &ustice is that this unusual
penalty has been an obstacle to successful prosecutions for violations of the act$
;andatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative$
;inor changes in phraseology were made$
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)**-"Pub$ .$ )/+0'*+, 1 -/5%a3, substituted >any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District? for >any
State, Territory, or District? in first par$
Pub$ .$ )/+0'*+, 1 -/+%b3%)+3%43, repealed Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 2'/)/2%a3%)3$ See )**+ 4mendment note below$
)**+"Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 22//)-%)3%.3, substituted >They shall be fined under this title? for >They shall be fined
not more than @)/,///? in third par$
Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 2'/'/)%a3, substituted >person in any State? for >inhabitant of any State? in first par$
Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 2'/)/2%a3%'30%+3, in third par$, substituted >results from the acts committed in violation of this
section or if such acts include #idnapping or an attempt to #idnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to #ill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years
or for life, or both? for >results, they shall be subject to imprisonment for any term of years or for life?$
Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 2'/)/2%a3%)3, which provided for amendment identical to Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 22//)-%)3%.3, above,
was repealed by Pub$ .$ )/+0'*+, 1 -/+%b3%)+3%43$
Pub$ .$ )/202'', 1 -///-%a3, substituted >, or may be sentenced to death$? for period at end of third par$