"capital murder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: capital murders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} capital murder (countable and uncountable, plural capital murders)
  1. An act of murder of a particular quality. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-capital_murder-en-noun-MRzLsT1L
  2. (law) The crime of murder of a particular quality. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-capital_murder-en-noun-hppbljWl Topics: law
  3. (law) The crime of murder of a particular quality.
    (under New Hampshire law) The crime of (while over 18) knowingly causing the death of a law enforcement or judicial officer in the line of duty; or of another person (not including a fetus) before, after or during actual or attempted commission of kidnapping, sexual assault, burglary or certain other offenses, or after being sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, or by criminally soliciting a third person to cause the death or as a result of having been solicited by a third person.
    Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Law, Murder
    Sense id: en-capital_murder-en-noun-ZFZ~cyfm Disambiguation of Murder: 14 24 62 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 14 74 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 16 18 66 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 16 17 67 Topics: law

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