Sentence examples for capital offence from inspiring English sources

Really, for a capital offence?

Derogatory remarks about the prophet Muhammad became a capital offence.

Even in Turkey, that is not a capital offence.

Some will have paid the ultimate price when confessing to a capital offence.

Fraud is not a capital offence, after all, and executives can usually afford a good lawyer.

Forming a trade union in Iraq under Saddam was a capital offence.

Boys, explains Edmund White, couldn't dance together, while homosexuality was in some states a capital offence.

Their son turned out to be gay, now a capital offence in Iran.

Miss Y. poked out both the Emperor's eyes, a capital offence the school did not report.

In Iran today, lavat (sodomy) is a capital offence and people are frequently executed for it.

The police have accused him of treason, a capital offence, though he has yet to be charged.