CAPITAL CRIME

Definition: CAPITAL CRIME

CAPITAL CRIME

1. A crime punishable with death. Syn: Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong. Usage: Crime , Sin , Vice . Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Guilt

Misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break , capital crime, delictum.

Books

• A Capital Crime (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Afghanistan

They also arrested 48 Afghan employees of the organization on unspecified charges, reportedly including apostasy, which is a capital crime. (references)

United Arab Emirates

Under the Criminal Procedures Code, the accused has a right to counsel in all cases involving a capital crime or possible life imprisonment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Finnish

hengenrikos. (various references)

German

Kapitalverbrechen. (various references)

Hungarian

főbenjáró vétség (capital offence), főbenjáró bűn (capital offence). (various references)

Manx

loght baaish (capital offence). (various references)

Pig Latin

apitalcay imecray

Russian 

наказуемое смертной казнью, преступление (crime, criminal offence, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, offence, offense, perpetration, wrongdoing). (various references)

Spanish

delito capital (capital offense). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: impractical, malpractice.

-3 letters: accipiter, acclaimer, acclimate, eclamptic, empirical, impartial, implicate, metacarpi, pearlitic, piratical, practical, primatial.

-4 letters: apractic, calamite, climatic, critical, ecliptic, iatrical, impacter, imperial, malapert, marlitic, material, metrical, parietal, particle, perlitic, placater, practice, prelatic, prelimit, primatal, reptilia, tailrace.

-5 letters: acclaim, acmatic, airmail, airtime, amirate, aplitic, apteral, apteria, article, calcite, caliper, caltrap, camelia, cameral, campier.

+1 letter: impracticable.

+4 letters: impracticalities.