The crime of **grave threats** under Article 282 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) seeks to protect an individual's life, honor, and property from intimidation through threats involving the commission of a crime. The law recognizes that the mere communication of an intention to commit a criminal act can inflict fear, anxiety, and psychological harm upon another person, even before the threatened crime is actually carried out. Thus, Philippine criminal law penalizes threats independently of the execution of the threatened offense.