Capital offense

Capital Offense A criminal charge that is punishable by the death penalty. Crimes punishable by death vary from state to state.

Capital Offense
(n) Capital Offence is a grave criminal activity which if the defendant was proved guilty is punishable by death penalty. Capital offences varies from state to states.

CAPITAL OFFENSE - An offense punishable by death. Crime for the punishment of which death is inflicted, said punishment being called CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.

Capital offense: A crime punishable by death.
Case law: The law as laid down in cases that have been decided in the decisions of the courts.
Charge: The criminal offense which is contained in the indictment.

Capital offense
A crime punishable by death.
Capital punishment
Called "capital" because it is the most extreme punishment that can be meted out. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment has been banned in many countries.

capital offense
n. any criminal charge which is punishable by the death penalty, called "capital" since the defendant could lose his/her head (Latin for caput).
capital punishment
n. execution (death) for a capital offense.

capital offense: A crime that you can get the death penalty for committing.
caption: What is written at the top of all papers (called "pleadings") given to the court. It says things like the case name, court, and case number.

CAPITAL OFFENSE: Offense that has death as a penalty.
CAPTION : The caption of a pleading, or other papers connected with a case in court, is the heading which shows the names of the parties, name of the court, number of the case, etc.

Capital Offense
A criminal offense punishable by death
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Apparently to heighten the deterrent power of capital punishment, Deuteronomy 21:22 commands that the body of anyone executed for a capital offense be impaled on a stake and left on public display.

See also: Criminal, Offense, Crime, State, Cases