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  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
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  *刑* | 刑* | *刑
punishment / penalty / sentence / torture / corporal punishment
to reduce penalty / shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence
removal of the kneecaps (punishment)
imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead , cutting off the nose , amputation of one or both feet , castration 宮|宫, execution 大辟 / Han dynasty onwards: whipping , beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns , forced labor , exile or banishment , capital punishment
torture / cruel corporal punishment
limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)
to be punished
to sentence (to prison etc)
beaten / tortured / executed
to serve a prison sentence
stoning (execution method)
water-boarding (torture)
indiscriminate punishment
life imprisonment
exile (as form of punishment)
cruelty; torture
prison sentence
supreme penalty / execution
death penalty; capital punishment
to carry out a (death) sentence / execution
corporal punishment
strict law / cruel punishment / to carry out cruel law rigorously
crucifiction
severe punishment / worst punishment / to torture
suspended sentence / probation
squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)
crime and punishment / penalty for a crime
(law) to determine the sentence
to execute by hanging
facing execution
corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)
castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)
corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead
castration (archaic punishment)
caning (corporal punishment)
to sentence / to condemn
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)
(law) deprivation of freedom
to sentence (a criminal)
execution by fire / burning at the stake
beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)
to torture sb using electricity / electrocution (capital punishment)


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