Noting that the House seemed to be doing a 'balancing act' by proposing to allow courts to impose death as punishment for heinous crimes, Lacson said more
capital offenses should be proposed than limited, and the list of offenses should include plunder.
Medellin was convicted of murder in the course of a sexual assault on two teenaged girls, a
capital offense in Texas, and sentenced to death in October 1994.
A third category of proposals would adjust in one way or another the procedures used to try and sentence capital defendants, including those relating to where a
capital offense may be tried, the appointment of counsel in capital cases, the pre-trial notification which the parties must exchange in capital cases, the procedures that apply when the defendant claims to be mentally retarded, adjustments in the statutory aggravating and mitigating circumstances, jury matters, and the site of federal executions.
Those held in connection with the kidnapping face trial before the central criminal court in Iraq, where kidnapping is a
capital offense.
Converts who had reverted to Judaism were now heretics in the eyes of the church--potentially a
capital offense.
For the first time since the Raj introduced tea and crumpets to the region, Pakistan's cricket team forfeited a test match against Great Britain after the refs ruled that the Pakistani players had tampered with the ball, a
capital offense among the ultra-civilized, white-shirted players who break for high tea.
The modern Western mind, secular or religious, has trouble getting itself around the idea of blasphemy as a
capital offense.
Rahman was taken into custody and charged with a
capital offense under Islamic law that bars citizens from converting to other faiths.
Loom destruction became a
capital offense in 1812, but it didn't diminish laments about the pace of technology.
Henderson, (7) finding a jurisdictional defect in the referral process of a
capital offense.
The jurisdiction of a special court-martial over a non-mandatory
capital offense was a legal question in which the court reviewed de novo.
To prevent further adventuring, these emperors made it a
capital offense to build a boat with more than two masts.
