Death threat
A death threat is a threat made by an individual or a group, mostly bullies, to harass a target. It is often used to intimidate the victim, either to try to murder them or to manipulate them into killing themselves.
In most jurisdictions, death threats are a serious type of criminal offence. Death threats are often covered by coercion statutes. Despite this, death threateners tend to believe that death threats are still part of freedom of speech.
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Death threats are often made in social sites, and thus may count as cyberbullying, but they are also communicated through a wide range of media, among these letters, newspaper publications, telephone calls and e-mail. Some threats are directed towards a political figure, as was the case with QAnon, which can also be counted as treason in that case. Death threats can also be used against location figures like a building, to incite a terrorist attack against them, as was the case with the capitol insurrection.