capital crime in the PONS Dictionary

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If a man sleep with the wife of his brother, while his brother is living, it is a capital crime, he shall die.
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The charge would have been "perduellio", a capital crime, most likely to be brought before the centuriate assembly.
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If a man have taken a free woman, then have intercourse also with her daughter, it is a capital crime, he shall die.
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On the other hand since in theory witchcraft was a capital crime, the sentence of a year's imprisonment with four sessions in the pillory was relatively lenient.
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Executioners were, whenever possible, selected from among slaves convicted for a capital crime.
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But that's hardly a capital crime.
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Today, lesbianism is no longer a capital crime but it remains criminalized by many governments and condemned by most religions.
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This was at the time a capital crime.
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That is, causing a woman to miscarry is a crime, but not a capital crime, because the foetus is not considered a person.
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It was a capital crime to carry off or offer violence to a nun.
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