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punishment: see capital punishment capital punishment, imposition of a penalty of death by the state.
HistoryCapital punishment was widely applied in ancient times; it can be found (c.1750 B.C.) in the Code of Hammurabi. ..... Click the link for more information. ; corporal punishment corporal punishment, physical chastisement of an offender. At one extreme it includes the death penalty (see capital punishment ), but the term usually refers to punishments like flogging, mutilation, and branding. Until c. ..... Click the link for more information. ; criminal law criminal law, the branch of law that defines crimes, treats of their nature, and provides for their punishment. A tort is a civil wrong committed against an individual; a crime, on the other hand, is regarded as an offense committed against the public, even though ..... Click the link for more information. ; prison prison, place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes. ..... Click the link for more information. . punishment 1. a penalty or sanction given for any crime or offence 2. the act of punishing or state of being punished 3. Psychol any aversive stimulus administered to an organism as part of training Punishment See also Torture, Transformation. Abijah Jeroboam’s child; taken by God for father’s wickedness. [O.T.: I Kings 14:12] condemned to survive by sweat of brow. [O.T.: Genesis 3:19] sinful life led to perpetual suffering. [Arth. Legend: Walsh Classical, 20; Ger. Opera: Parsifal] half-hippopotamus, half-lion monster of underworld; ate the sinful. [Egyptian Myth.: Leach, 50] land of punishment for those who die angry. [Jap. Myth.: Jobes, 140] condemned to bear world on shoulders. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 38] shepherd who revealed Mercury’s theft of sheep; he was punished by being turned to stone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 71]
de Dante has him carry his head as lantern. [Ital. Lit.: Inferno; Walsh Classical, 55] had a venal judge put to death and the body skinned as covering for his judgment seat. [Gk. Hist.: Herodotus in Magill III, 479] the Furies; punished crimes and avenged wrongs. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 82, 91–92] for murder, devoured by fire. [Span. Lit.: Benét, 279; Ger. Opera: Mozart, Don Giovanni, Westerman, 95] three sisters who pursue those guilty of blood crimes and drive them mad. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 320] for disobeying God, would suffer in childbirth. [O.T.: Genesis 3:16] for his evilness, man perishes by inundation. [O.T.: Genesis 6: 5–8; 7:4] was eaten by worms for playing god. [N.T.: Acts 12:23] lived for nineteen centuries as punishment for her crime against John the Baptist. [Fr. Lit.: Eugène Sue The Wandering Jew] hollow iron figure in the shape of a woman, lined with spikes that impaled the enclosed victim. [Ger. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 491] king bound to fiery wheel by Zeus. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 142; Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses] priest offends Athena, is strangled to death by two sea serpents. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 565] destroyed by God for offering Him “alien fire.” [O.T.: Leviticus 10:1–3] for lying, has mouth padlocked. [Ger. Opera: Mozart, The Magic Flute, Westerman, 102–104] struck blind for peeping at Lady Godiva. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 403] God visits Egypt with plagues and epidemics to show his power. [O.T.: Exodus 8, 12] for rebelliousness, chained to rock; vulture fed on his liver which grew back daily. [Rom. Myth.: Zimmerman, 221–222] pilloried and sentenced to wear a scarlet “A” for her sin of adultery. [Am. Lit.: The Scarlet Letter]
condemned in Hades to roll boulder uphill which would immediately roll down again. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 244; Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Rom. Lit.: Aeneid] for his crimes, sentenced to Hades to be within reach of water he cannot drink. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 253; Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] ordered to shoot apple placed on son’s head for refusing to salute governor’s hat. [Ger. Lit.: William Tell; Ital. Opera: Rossini, William Tell; Westerman, 121–122] unknowingly eats sons served by vengeful brother. [Rom. Lit.: Thyestes] tree site of the London gibbet. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 169] site of lapidation of Achan, Israelite troublemaker. [O.T.: Joshua 7:24–26] condemned to eternal flames for seeking forbidden knowledge. [Br. Lit.: Beckford Vathek] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Nor shall I recount further incidents of the life that is now to end--a life of wandering, always and everywhere haunted by an overmastering sense of crime in punishment of wrong and of terror in punishment of crime. And if the punishment be not also a right and an honour to the transgressor, I do not like your punishing. "Your Honour," said the Malefactor, interrupting, "would you be kind enough to alter my punishment to ten years in the penitentiary and nothing else? |
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