DCHP-1 Online
non-capital murder 
murder for which the maximum punishment is life imprisonment.
See also: capital murder
- 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.
- 1962 [He] changed his plea to guilty of non-capital murder . . . and was sentenced to life imprisonment.