capital offence BrE
capital offense AmE

Running away from them was likely to be a capital offence.

All the evidence they needed to prosecute for a capital offence.

It has added to its list of capital offences.

A capital offence, George, for over six hundred years.

Simply predicting the death of a monarch was a capital offence at the time.

Under this act, it was a capital offence for a mother to conceal the birth of a child.

In many countries that use the death penalty, drug trafficking is also a capital offence.

In 1688 there were about 50 capital offences in England.

Murder's a capital offence in England, you know that.

And to think that debasing the currency was once a capital offence!

Verrucas maybe not so much, but giving me flu is a capital offence.

Horse theft became a capital offence in 1545, punishable by death.

Originally a capital offence, the penalty was reduced in 1998 to life imprisonment.

Between 1660 and 1819 these increased greatly and 187 capital offences were enacted.

And shouldn't using the word 'Wills' be a capital offence?

Possession of Jewish scriptures was made a capital offence.

It was a capital offence to steal a 'web' from the frames.

For murder was a capital offence, even for a thirteen-year-old.

He is charged with capital offences, and he has a defence against them.

It was a capital offence, until the death penalty was abolished in 1990.

The party is banned in Syria and membership became a capital offence in 1980.

These courts did not cover cases that involved other religious groups, or capital offences or threats to public order.

Also any act "whereby the Queen's life shall be shortened" was made a capital offence.

Originally the regulations did not create any capital offences, since the law of treason was thought to be sufficient.

To harbour them was reckoned to be a capital offence punishable by death.