(police) detective; criminal matter
death penalty; capital punishment
prison; jail; gaol; penitentiary
(criminal) punishment; penalty; sentence
Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)
punishment without a legal trial; vigilantism
reduction of penalty; commutation of a sentence
burning at the stake; execution by burning
death by hanging; execution by hanging
exile; banishment; deportation
to sentence; to assign a penalty
life imprisonment; life sentence
(penalty of) imprisonment
judge's sentence; assessment of a case
execution; death by execution
jail sentence; imprisonment
execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
instruments of punishment
corporal punishment; punishment by mutilation
maximum punishment; maximum sentence
second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
criminal offense; criminal offence
corporal punishment; physical punishment; prison sentence; penal servitude; imprisonment with hard labour
(penalty of) imprisonment
lingchi (form of torture and execution used in China); slow slicing; death by a thousand cuts
nulla poena sine lege; no punishment without law
definite term (of a prison sentence)
freedom-restricting punishment; imprisonment
corporal punishment; physical punishment
assessment of a penalty; determination of a sentence; degree of punishment; sentencing
execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
theory of retribution; retributivism; retributive justice
having served time in prison; ex-convict; (arch.) eunuch
stripping of honours (as a means of punishment); stripping of rights; public humiliation
financial penalty; pecuniary punishment
five punishments (of ancient China: tattooing, cutting off the nose, cutting off a leg, castration or confinement, death); five punishments (of the ritsuryō system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
retributivism; retributive justice; principle of punitive justice; belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
execution by a firing squad
discretionary sentence; discretionary penalty
condemned person; prisoner
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
tattooing (as a form of punishment in ancient China)