Synonyms for capital offense
cap·i·tal of·fense

Princeton's WordNet

1. capital offensenoun

   a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate

Matched Categories

1. • Crime

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1. Emilie Fe delos Santos:

   We filed a murder case, it's a capital offense so there will be no bail. There was aggravated treachery, abuse of superior strength and cruelty.

2. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf:

   Numerous recent studies have called into question the accuracy and fundamental fairness of Pennsylvania's capital sentencing system, these studies suggest that inherent biases affect the makeup of death row. While data is incomplete, there are strong indications that a person is more likely to be charged with a capital offense and sentenced to death if he is poor or of a minority racial group, and particularly where the victim of the crime was Caucasian.