(police) detective;  criminal matter
 death penalty;  capital punishment
 penalty;  sentence;  punishment
 prison officer;  corrections officer;  penal officer;  prison guard;  jailor;  warder
 (criminal) punishment;  penalty;  sentence
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 capital punishment;  death penalty;  maximum penalty;  ultimate punishment
 Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
 place of execution;  execution site
 punishment without a legal trial;  vigilantism
 burning at the stake;  execution by burning
 reduction of penalty;  commutation of a sentence
 death by hanging;  execution by hanging
 police drama (television);  detective drama
 exile;  banishment;  deportation
 to sentence;  to assign a penalty
 prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
 life imprisonment;  life sentence
 recommended sentence;  prosecution's demand for punishment
 penal labour;  work assigned to prisoners
 (penalty of) imprisonment
 judge's sentence;  assessment of a case
 execution;  death by execution
 jail sentence;  imprisonment
 criminal punishment;  criminal penalty
 plainclothes police officer;  plain-clothes detective
 execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
 unsuspended prison sentence;  prison sentence with no stay of execution
 criminal complaint;  lodging a criminal complaint (against someone)
 juvenile prison;  juvenile corrective institution
 instruments of punishment
 corporal punishment;  punishment by mutilation
 maximum punishment;  maximum sentence
 criminal offense;  criminal offence
 second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
 corporal punishment;  physical punishment;  prison sentence;  penal servitude;  imprisonment with hard labour
 abolition of the death penalty;  abolition of capital punishment
 criminal action;  Criminal Procedure Code
 Hansen's disease;  leprosy
 accused;  defendant;  prisoner at the bar
 International Criminal Court;  ICC
 closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)
 criminal punishment;  criminal procedure
 to take the law into one's own hands
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 nulla poena sine lege;  no punishment without law
 punishment;  penalty;  execution
 definite term (of a prison sentence)
 freedom-restricting punishment;  imprisonment
 corporal punishment;  physical punishment
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 being jealous of somebody over something but also thinking they should be sentenced to death over it (esp. of male teachers having sexual relations with their students)
 theory of retribution;  retributivism;  retributive justice
 having served time in prison;  ex-convict; (arch.)  eunuch
 execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
 criminal court;  Crown Court (UK)
 Act on Penal Detention Facilities and the Treatment of Inmates and Detainees
 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 ritsuryo system: light caning, severe caning, imprisonment, exile, death)
 international criminal law
 Rules of Criminal Procedure
 retributivism;  retributive justice;  principle of punitive justice;  belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment
 discretionary sentence;  discretionary penalty
 adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison);  penalizing a crime
 condemned person;  prisoner
 cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
 cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
 to punish (esp. with death)
 to punish (esp. with death)
 tattooing (form of punishment in ancient China)