Q. How long does it take to try a capital felony case?

"We believe that murder and capital felony are different," the court wrote.

Q. Should the law be changed so there is a capital felony team for the prosecution?

He has been charged with two counts of murder and a single capital felony count.

It created the offence of bigamy as a capital felony.

He was convicted of one capital felony and two counts of murder.

At trial in 1988, they were both convicted of capital felony murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

The two courts convicted 29 people of the capital felony of witchcraft.

The seven people arrested, all in their 20's, included two men charged with capital felony murder, punishable by death under Connecticut law.

The jury recommended a death sentence on each of the six capital felony counts for which Hayes was convicted.

Twenty-nine people were convicted (or found guilty) of witchcraft, which was a capital felony.

"Mr. Skakel is not charged with capital felony," he said.

If they did not depart, or returned without licence, they were guilty of a capital felony.

Capital felony is punishable by death in Connecticut.

If convicted of capital felony, Mr. Stone could face the death penalty.

Of more than 30 multiple-murder defendants convicted for a capital felony since 1973, only a few have landed on death row.

If a person is found guilty of a capital felony, the jury must again deliberate in the penalty phase of the trial.

Attempts to curb crime by making the death penalty a mandatory sentence for even the smallest capital felony had little perceived impact.

He attributed the increase to coincidence, since the laws governing who can be charged with capital felony are narrow and prosecutors have little discretion.

Nance was found guilty of capital felony murder, with attempted rape as the underlying felony.

Capital felony - Penalties.

Capital felony - Sentencing proceeding.

Ms. Forty was being held on $3 million bond and was also charged with capital felony murder as well as other offenses.

The charges of capital felony allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty against the Peelers if they are convicted of the murders.

Deaneric Dupas, of Waterbury, is facing capital felony charges.