criminal; penal

criminal police (abbr. for 刑事警察[xing2 shi4 jing3 cha2])

to serve a prison sentence

to carry out a (death) sentence; execution

prison term

to execute by hanging

to sentence (to prison etc)

suspended sentence; probation

cruelty; torture

sentence; penalty; punishment

to reduce penalty; shortened or commuted (judicial) sentence

surname Xing

punishment; penalty; sentence; torture; corporal punishment

criminal law

life imprisonment

execution by fire; burning at the stake

Interpol (International Criminal Police Organization)

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)

torture; interrogation by torture

execution ground

gibbet; hanging post

criminal investigation

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

criminal to be executed; to execute a criminal

punishment equipment; torture instrument

xing-ming, a school of thought of the Warring States period associated with Shen Buhai 申不害[Shen1 Bu4 hai4]; the designation for a punishment

torture chamber

Xingtian, headless giant hero of Chinese mythology decapitated by the Yellow Emperor 黃帝|黄帝[Huang2 di4]

criminal court (abbr. for 刑事法庭[xing2 shi4 fa3 ting2])

criminal law

(literary) corporal punishment or execution

office of punishment; torture chamber (esp. unofficial)

to detain as criminal; criminal detention; abbr. for 刑事拘留[xing2 shi4 ju1 liu2]

rod used for flogging offenders

criminal case

to extort confession by torture

to complete a prison sentence

legal net; the long arm of the law

to be forced to grind grain as a punishment (old)

interrogation under torture; inquisition

to humiliate by torture

Ministry of Justice (in imperial China)