capital offense

Even to know of its existence was, she knew, a capital offense.

This latter is, in the eyes of many people, a capital offense.

Besides the capital offenses, the court in the 1880s tried several important civil cases.

I turned it off, which Walter would have made a capital offense if he'd been making the laws.

But I didn't think my coming constituted a capital offense.

Being caught driving a car is a capital offense without trial.

It is a capital offense to print anything in English.

However, at his present age and as a male, it was a capital offense for him to be here.

But he said that in his view, stealing this technology was not a capital offense.

In 24 of those states, it is a capital offense.