What is the difference between aggravated kidnapping and kidnapping?

Answer 1

use of a weapon

Answer 2

Criminal statutes vary to some extent from state to state, but generally, an aggravated crime is simply a crime with "aggravating circumstances" that increase the severity of the crime and therefore increase the punishment imposed on its commission. Such aggravating circumstances could involve the use of a firearm, the commission of additional crimes in conjunction with the first, or the intent to cause severe and permanent harm to the victim (or her unborn child).

In Florida, aggravated kidnapping involves the kidnapping of a child under 13 and, in conjunction with the kidnapping, abusing the child physically or sexually. Such aggravating circumstances automatically result in a life sentence for the perpetrator if convicted, whereas simple kidnapping does not.

Answer 3

kidnapping
Crime of seizing, confining, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud, often to subject him or her to involuntary servitude, in an attempt to demand a ransom, or in furtherance of another crime. Most countries consider it a grave offense punishable by a long prison sentence or death.

Louisiana Aggravated Kidnapping Law
LA R.S. 14:44

Aggravated kidnapping is the doing of any of the following acts with the intent thereby to force the victim, or some other person, to give up anything of apparent present or prospective value, or to grant any advantage or immunity, in order to secure a release of the person under the offender's actual or apparent control:

(1) The forcible seizing and carrying of any person from one place to another; or

(2) The enticing or persuading of any person to go from one place to another; or

(3) The imprisoning or forcible secreting of any person.

Whoever commits the crime of aggravated kidnapping shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence.