non-capital murder

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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murder for which the maximum punishment is life imprisonment.

Quotations

1962

[He] changed his plea to guilty of non-capital murder . . . and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

1963

The next day, the farmers were charged with noncapital murder and rounded up again. Then warrants were issued for the union men.