18 U.S.C. § 241
Conspiracy against rights
United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective
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- 18 U.S.C. § 241, Conspiracy against rights, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/448753
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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 from 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.
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
- Economic Espionage Act of 1996House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally