I hear you Emerald... as long as they're adults. People have the right to be that stupid. Adults do not have the right to cause harm to children or animals.

They are con artists.

Actually some medications are lethal. We live in a world where there just aren't answers or road maps to the truth. We all have to work at finding our own truth. Blind faith in faith healers is dangerous. Blind faith in allopathic medicine is also not so reliable, unfortunately. Sometimes yes; sometimes not so good.

We are living in a national society and that society has agreed on a lot of laws. If it can be proven that someone (and that also counts for faith healers) has acted against laws, he or she should be arrested and have his or her day(s) in court.
That having said, there should be laws against this kind of abuse if abuse is proven. But in judging there should also be considered that everybody has the freedom to seek the help he or she thinks will work best. And than the dilemma shows up, is someone who is indoctrinated from childhood on free in determining his or her will. It's a hard nut to crack.

Absolutely yes. Fraud is fraud, worst yet this has the worst possible outcome of all frauds.

Or any other fallacy that causes someone to be harmed, like "removing" their pain, the thing that tells them something is wrong. Some are susceptible to brainwashing. Yes, those cons should have consequences.

Equally should governments and purported philanthropists be allowed to force medication on individuals? Here in Australia it has got to the point where forced mass medication is occurring through fluoride poisoning of the public water supplies, kindergarten and school children are not admitted unless they have been vaccinated, GMO contamination of food supply is allowed without the fact being labelled to empower consumers, depleted uranium is used to create generational genocide in foreign countries etc. When will people be held to account for this?

Nope, but I am not a law man. I am not for big pharma either neither religion of any kind so I will excuse myself with no dog in the fight. Talk about yourselves.

Tried for murder in extreme cases yes i think so

This is a difficult issue. If faith healers actually believe in what they are doing then they by definition are brain washed or not sane and thus victims themselves. This being said, there is no doubt that people like Peter Popoff [en.wikipedia.org] were simply crooks and a danger to society that at the least should be incarcerated to protect society.

If there are children involved, especially. However I have a problem with the whole "send-em-to-jail!!!" response to everything that happens, from dog mistreatment to school shootings.

They should be charged, but I don't think they would be charged with murder. Maybe involuntary manslaughter? Aggravated or gross negligence?

I agree that it should be criminal to "sell" fake healing or advertise oneself as a "healer" since this is essentially fraud and deception. They should be thrown in prison for a few years. This would help dissuade this type of predatory deception.

But ultimately, people are responsible for their own well being. If my own poor decisions result in my early death, then that's my own fault. It would have been my decision to believe in baseless nonsense.

If I defraud someone with fake cancer medication I go to prison, why not these people too?

No, but any group's leader who makes more than 80 thousand a year shouldn't get tax free status.

I agree. They should be help accountable:/

It's a nice idea but I don't think it's feasible. You're looking at First Amendment issues for one thing.

A lot of crimes aren't crimes under the guise of religion and/or country.

Yes, they should be held legally responsible.

if their efforts resulted in death or harm to the patient. Harmless activity should not be punished. With respect to faith healing, I would not want to encourage it. As a scam it should be punished. If not done for bogus gain then let it go, if no harm is done.

No.