Post Facebook death threats - go to prison.

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Nessie

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"A British man who threatened to kill 200 people in the US, in posts he made under a false name on Facebook, has been jailed for more than two years....

Using a false name, he wrote on the RIP Caitlin Talley page: "My father has three guns. I'm planning on killing him first and putting him in a dumpster. "Then I'm taking the motor and I'm going in fast. I'm gonna kill hopefully at least 200 before I kill myself. So you want to tell the deputy, I'm on my way."

He added: "I'm killing 200 people minimum at school. I will be on CNN.....

The residents of Warren County (Tennessee) and all the people who have access to the Facebook page were clearly concerned. "I am told that the local authority immediately put all the local schools in the area on what was called lockdown. Because of the hysteria caused, around 3,000 children were kept off school on that specific day."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22839359

Would the USA reciprocate and imprison someone who posed such threats and caused chaos in the UK?
 
Ooops, didn't look hard enough. Maybe the mods can scrap this thread?
 
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