Capital crime


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a crime punishable with death.

See also: Crime

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live.
You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine.
Is a man ever put in the pillory for a capital crime?"
discoverymuseum.org.uk Capital Crime Festival, London (Sept 26 - 28)
The single most important element in solving a premeditated, capital crime is the motive of the perpetrator(s).
If convicted of a capital crime that you did not commit, one would expect the hate in your heart to run oh so deep.
Sources that Federal Capital crime rate has been increased in 2018 as compare to 2017 as it raised 60% in the current year.More than 1200 proclaimed offenders and 3200 judicial offenders were registered in 21 different police stations of Federal Capital as Federal police have failed to arrest these criminals.
Robert Hall (40) was said to have come under attack while inside his flat in Baker Street - an incident his solicitor said would have been a "capital crime" in centuries past - on January 1 last year.
Clearly, he cannot be convicted of murder under Jewish law, because we learned in Tractate Sanhedrin, a murderer is only guilty if he is forewarned by two witnesses that he is about to commit a capital crime. But does this mean that an unintentional killer suffers no consequences at all?
Regarding the case, the boy's lawyer Dean Mooney quipped yesterday: "I think that was a capital crime back in the day".
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and capital crime in Pakistan for which dozens are sitting on death row.
Meanwhile, someone caught spying for Israel -- a capital crime in some articles of law -- can serve just six months as long as the right political support is secured.

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