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Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.
by kdomanski 5y ago
Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long Unless it is with other people and, more critically, at least one of the people involved goes beyond planning and takes some concrete step to advance the execution of the plan (at which point it becomes the separate crime of conspiracy), no, planning a crime, even of that seriousness, is not itself a crime.
- legolas2412 5y agoJust writing death threat for the president online is a crime. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Buddhi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikram_Buddhi No other concrete step is needed.
- dragonwriter 5y agoA threat is not the same as planning. Planning to kill someone is not a crime. Threatening to is, even if they aren't the President.
- zepto 5y agoYes, but whether it is a murder or not is decided in court, not by you. Not all assassination are murder.