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


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