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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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All these years later, Lethem wants to measure the cost and burden of microaggressions and capital offenses.
The former president was furious at the speaker last month after McCarthy committed the capital offense of telling the truth.
It would appear that is now a capital offense.
Mr. Blake was charged with “murder with special circumstances,” a capital offense, but prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
“None of the charges against Ms. Gilland are capital offenses or offenses punishable by life imprisonment. Therefore, Ms. Gilland is entitled to pretrial release,” attorney Matthew Ferry wrote in a motion filed late Wednesday.
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