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capital offense
- A crime, such as murder or betrayal of one's country, that is treated so seriously that death may be considered an appropriate punishment.
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The 23-year-old Army private faces a litany of charges, including aiding the enemy, a capital offense.
A decree was issued making it a capital offense to harbor missionaries of any garb.
But the civil law of Rome extirpated this barbarous privilege, and rendered the killing of a slave a capital offense.
For a bee to force its way into a strange city without the queens consent is a capital offense.
Under the laws proclaimed by Dale, absence from church was a capital offense.
Disobedience of parents was voted a capital offense and so was Sabbath-breaking even to the extent of picking up sticks.
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