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


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