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Fraud is not a capital offence, after all, and executives can usually afford a good lawyer.
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The police have accused him of treason, a capital offence, though he has yet to be charged.
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The friend, a prominent businessman, is in unrelated trouble: he has been arrested for possessing unlicensed bullets a capital offence in Malaysia.
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On the campaign trail he has repeatedly defended the Texas system, arguing that every inmate executed on his watch was guilty of a capital offence.
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Some reports claimed they had converted from Islam to Christianity or Bahai faith - potentially a capital offence in Iran as it is considered to be apostasy.
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Because treason is a capital offence, the case will be moved to the High Court, where the accused will be asked to enter pleas on Thursday, our reporter says.
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Under General Zia, the only sincerely pious leader, Pakistan introduced draconian sharia punishments, made blasphemy a capital offence and ruled that unless rape victims could produce at least four male Muslim eye-witnesses they would be held guilty of fornication, a serious crime.
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At the time, holding capital abroad without telling the authorities was a criminal offence.
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