You are right in saying violence would be a capital crime.
A few months later, the offense becomes a capital crime, and people are to be guillotined "for having voted against the Constitution of 1793.
Constantius and Constans made it a capital crime, punishable with the sword.
Until the end of the eighteenth, or the beginning of the nineteenth, century, infanticide was a capital crime everywhere in Europe, except in Russia.
But the use of images for this maleficent purpose was a capital crime; any person caught in the act of burying one of them in the public road would surely have been put to death.
This is borne out by a statement of Varro that to kill an OX was formerly a capital crime in Attica.
Persons who uttered these forbidden words were looked on not only as grossly rude, but even as felons; they had committed a capital crime.
We have just seen the impassive majesty of Roman law declaring at the chief seat of power that to be a Christian is a capital crime.
The emperor had judged that Christians as such professed a religion not allowed by the Roman laws, and were guilty therein of a capital crime.
This evidence is complete so far as to show that it was not Trajan's answer to Pliny which made the Christian religion illicit, but that it was already of itself a capital crime.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capital crime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
