to serve a prison sentence

to carry out a (death) sentence; execution

to execute by hanging

to sentence (to prison etc)

suspended sentence; probation

cruelty; torture

to reduce penalty; shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence

surname Xing

punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment

life imprisonment

execution by fire; burning at the stake

to sentence; to condemn

prison sentence

strict law; cruel punishment; to carry out cruel law rigorously

limited term of imprisonment (i.e. anything less than life imprisonment)

to torture sb using electricity; electrocution (capital punishment)

imperial five punishments of feudal China, up to Han times: tattooing characters on the forehead 墨[mo4], cutting off the nose 劓[yi4], amputation of one or both feet 刖[yue4], castration 宮|宫[gong1], execution 大辟[da4 pi4]; Han dynasty onwards: whipping 笞[chi1], beating the legs and buttocks with rough thorns 杖[zhang4], forced labor 徒[tu2], exile or banishment 流[liu2], capital punishment 死[si3]

severe punishment; worst punishment; to torture

facing execution

corporal punishment

beaten; tortured; executed

corporal punishment consisting of carving and inking characters on the victim's forehead

to sentence (a criminal)

castration (archaic punishment)

squeezing the fingers between sticks (old form of torture)

beating with wooden staves (as corporal punishment)

supreme penalty; execution

torture; cruel corporal punishment

water-boarding (torture)

exile (as a form of punishment)

indiscriminate punishment

stoning (execution method)

whipping with bamboo strips (as corporal punishment)

crime and punishment; penalty for a crime

corporal punishment (such as castration or amputation)

castration (a form of punishment during the Han period)

removal of the kneecaps (punishment)

torture; corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)

(law) to be sentenced

(law) to determine the sentence

caning (corporal punishment)

(law) deprivation of freedom

crucifiction