What crimes carry the death penalty?

Answer 1

when one kicks the heads off of garden gnomes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will look for you, will find you and will enforce capital punishment on you.

gnomes are to be worshipped not decapitated.

Answer 2

I believe we are down to just treason, homicide, and rape with additional bodily harm. There used to be many more offenses that were punishable by death, including robbery. If you were a minority any number of things could end up in a death sentence for you. However, while there are still racial biases in the application of the death penalty, the law is very specific about which crimes can result in the death penalty. In 2008 in Kennedy v Louisiana the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional for one more crime, the rape of a child. This only affected a handful of states such as Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Montana, and a few others. There is a lot of good information, make sure it is cited from reputable sources, on Wikipedia.

Answer 3

1. famous killings
2. serial killings
3. bombings
4. too many manslaughter

and extra charge for other things and your crime history along with murder charges and they will not stop the death they need a witness

Answer 4

In the United States, other than Federal crimes such as treason, the only crime for which one can be put to death is first degree murder. First degree murder is classified several different ways depending on what State you live, it can be called felony murder or first degree homicide. The element of the crime that makes first degree different from second degree is that it is planned or malicious in nature. Example: if you walk in your home and find your wife in bed with another man and you immediately react and kill the man, that would be considered second degree. Take the same scenario except you left went to your local bar, had a few drinks and thought about it and returned to kill the man, that is first degree which could be punishable by death.

Also, if you are commiting a felony crime such as armed robbery, and end up killing the person you are robbing or another even if it is accidental or not planned, it is still classified as first degree murder and also punishable by death.

Answer 5

Murder, rape and treason are the three crimes that are typically considered capital crimes. Laws vary from state to state and country to country and the punishments as well.

Answer 6

Such crimes are referred to as 'Capital crimes'.

They will vary according to the legislation of the country concerned.