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class="num" value="1">(1)</span> <div class="content"> the alleged offender is a national of the <a aria-label="Definitions - United States" class="colorbox-load definedterm" href="/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=18-USC-2032517217-1415892825&term_occur=999&term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:113C:section:2340A">United States</a>; or</div> </div> <div class="paragraph indent1"><a name="b_2"></a><span class="num" value="2">(2)</span> <div class="content"> the alleged offender is present in the <a aria-label="Definitions - United States" class="colorbox-load definedterm" href="/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=18-USC-2032517217-1415892825&term_occur=999&term_src=title:18:part:I:chapter:113C:section:2340A">United States</a>, irrespective of the nationality of the victim or alleged offender.</div> </div> </div> <div class="subsection indent0"><a name="c"></a><span class="num" value="c">(c)</span><span class="heading"> Conspiracy.—</span> <div class="content">A person who conspires to commit an offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties (other than the penalty of death) as the penalties prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.</div> </div> <div class="sourceCredit">(Added <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._103-236">Pub. L. 103–236, title V, § 506(a)</a>, <span class="date" date="1994-04-30">Apr. 30, 1994</span>, <a href="/rio/citation/108_Stat._463">108 Stat. 463</a>; amended <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._103-322">Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60020</a>, <span class="date" date="1994-09-13">Sept. 13, 1994</span>, <a href="/rio/citation/108_Stat._1979">108 Stat. 1979</a>; <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._107-56">Pub. L. 107–56, title VIII, § 811(g)</a>, <span class="date" date="2001-10-26">Oct. 26, 2001</span>, <a href="/rio/citation/115_Stat._381">115 Stat. 381</a>.)</div> </div> </div></text> </div> <div class="tab-pane" id="tab_default_2">  <notes><div class="notes"> </div><div class="notes"> <div class="note" topic="editorialNotes"><span class="heading centered"><strong>Editorial Notes</strong></span></div> <div class="note" topic="amendments"><span class="heading centered smallCaps">Amendments</span> <p>2001—Subsec. (c). <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._107-56">Pub. L. 107–56</a> added subsec. (c).</p> <p>1994—Subsec. (a). <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._103-322">Pub. L. 103–322</a> inserted “punished by death or” before “imprisoned for any term of years or for life”.</p> </div> <div class="note" topic="statutoryNotes"><span class="heading centered"><strong>Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries</strong></span></div> <div class="note" topic="effectiveDate"><span class="heading centered smallCaps">Effective Date</span> <p>Section effective on the later of <span class="date" date="1994-04-30">Apr. 30, 1994</span>, or the date on which the<a aria-label="Definitions - United States " class="colorbox-load definedterm" href="/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=18-USC-2032517217-1415892825&term_occur=999&term_src="> United States </a>has become a party to the Convention Against<a aria-label="Definitions - Torture " class="colorbox-load definedterm" href="/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=18-USC-1137066421-1415892827&term_occur=999&term_src="> Torture </a>and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (<span class="date" date="1994-11-20">Nov. 20, 1994</span>), see <a href="/rio/citation/Pub._L._103-236">section 506(c) of Pub. 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