How To Use capital offense In A Sentence
- Anatoli Natan Sharansky was twenty-nine years old when he was seized by the Russian secret police, the KGB, taken to Lefortovo prison, stripped naked and searched, and told that he was being charged with treason, a capital offense. BARGAINING WITH THE DEVIL
- Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offense.
- I shot the sheriff, and they say it is a capital offense.
- It is a capital offense to inadvertently kill someone while attempting suicide.
- In the Eighteenth Century, imbeciles but not idiots could be executed for capital offenses.
- We view this infraction as a speeding ticket, not a capital offense.
- Under Kenyan domestic law, there is no entitlement to legal aid for anybody who is not accused of a capital offense," said Singh. "So, suspected pirates have no opportunity to have a lawyer.
- The military commission is confirmed as having authority to try even the most serious non-capital offenses with trial panels of only three officers.
- To prevent further adventuring, these emperors made it a capital offense to build a boat with more than two masts.
- By 1500 the Government had made it a capital offense to build a boat with more than two masts, and in 1525 the Government ordered the destruction of all oceangoing ships.