It has come to light that a number of serious felonies, including one for which the death penalty may be imposed, are included in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald Trump on Tuesday for his part in the effort to challenge the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
Breitbart’s Joel Pollak explained in a report that 18 U.S.C § 241, “Conspiracy Against Rights,” includes a penalty of up to 10 years in federal prison.
The statute adds that the offender may be executed if death results from the actions covered by this provision:
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.
As detailed by Pollak in his report, below are a few other alleged crimes in the January 6 indictment against Trump that could include possible lengthy prison terms and penalties:
18 U.S.C. § 371 – Conspiracy to Defraud the United States – the maximum penalty is five years in prison, though penalties can be less if the conspiracy is to commit a misdemeanor; in that case, the punishment cannot be greater than the greatest for that crime.
18 U.S.C. § 1512 (k) – Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding – this statute, crafted originally to punish witness tampering, has a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison for anyone who “obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding.”
18 U.S.C. § 1512 (c) – Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding – this likewise carries up to 20 years in prison.
Pollak wrote in his report: “If Trump is convicted of all four charges, and receives the maximum non-lethal penalty, he could be imprisoned for 55 years, if the sentences are set to run consecutively. That, in addition to the possible 460 years in prison in the “documents” case that Smith is prosecuting in federal court in Miami, brings Trump’s maximum federal prison term to 515 years, over half a millennium.”
It was revealed on Tuesday that Trump had been indicted again by Smith stemming from his investigation into the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol Building.
