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A loose term that can describe any level of offense but is most often applied to Crimes of Moral Turpitude. Moral turpituderefers generally to conduct that shocks the public conscience. Offenses such as murder, voluntary manslaughter, kidnaping, robbery, and aggravated assaults involve moral turpitude. However, simple assaults not involving dangerous weapons or evil intent do not involve moral turpitude.

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Heinous means, shocking, evil, monstrous, grave, awful, vicious, outrageous, revolting, infamous, hideous, unspeakable, atrocious, flagrant, odious, hateful, abhorrent, abominable, villainous, nefarious, iniquitous, execrable an example of a Heinous crime would be to murder somneone, dismember them and canabalize their remains as in the Jeffery Dahmer case.

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These are crimes that are revolting to the average person. They are malum per se.

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a heinous crime is one committed by one who will take it to the extreme, very brutal and cruel, a monstrous murderer.

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Heinous crime is a willful crime punishable in law by death penalty (in some countries/regions) and unacceptable in society as extremely evil & cruel crime.

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Hate crimes. Like harming someone specifically because of their race or different from the charged.

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