(police) detective;  criminal matter
 death penalty;  capital punishment
 penalty;  sentence;  punishment
 (criminal) punishment;  penalty;  sentence
 capital punishment;  death penalty;  maximum penalty;  ultimate punishment
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 place of execution;  execution site
 prison officer;  corrections officer;  penal officer;  prison guard;  jailor;  warder
 punishment without a legal trial;  vigilantism
 reduction of penalty;  commutation of a sentence
 police drama (television);  detective drama
 death by hanging;  execution by hanging
 burning at the stake;  execution by burning
 to sentence;  to assign a penalty
 Ministry of Justice (in Tang-dynasty China)
 exile;  banishment;  deportation
 prison sentence (without a stay of execution)
 life imprisonment;  life sentence
 recommended sentence;  prosecution's demand for punishment
 judge's sentence;  assessment of a case
 (penalty of) imprisonment
 jail sentence;  imprisonment
 execution;  death by execution
 unsuspended prison sentence;  prison sentence with no stay of execution
 criminal punishment;  criminal penalty
 penal labour;  work assigned to prisoners
 criminal complaint;  lodging a criminal complaint (against someone)
 plainclothes police officer;  plain-clothes detective
 juvenile prison;  juvenile corrective institution
 instruments of punishment
 maximum punishment;  maximum sentence
 execution of a sentence (esp. imprisonment)
 International Criminal Court;  ICC
 criminal offense;  criminal offence
 (penalty of) imprisonment
 corporal punishment;  punishment by mutilation
 second most severe of the five punishments of ancient China (castration for men, confinement for women)
 criminal punishment;  criminal procedure
 corporal punishment;  physical punishment;  prison sentence;  penal servitude;  imprisonment with hard labour
 abolition of the death penalty;  abolition of capital punishment
 accused;  defendant;  prisoner at the bar
 closing argument and sentencing recommendation (of a prosecutor)
 to take the law into one's own hands
 Ministry of Justice (1869-1871 CE);  Ministry of Justice (under the ritsuryo system)
 criminal action;  Criminal Procedure Code
 Hansen's disease;  leprosy
 execution by tying a victim to a post and stabbing with spears;  crucifixion
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 nulla poena sine lege;  no punishment without law
 definite term (of a prison sentence)
 punishment;  penalty;  execution
 criminal condemned to death;  convict on death row
 freedom-restricting punishment;  imprisonment
 corporal punishment;  physical punishment
 Saikyō;  one of the eight gods of the koyomi
 theory of retribution;  retributivism;  retributive justice
 having served time in prison;  ex-convict; (arch.)  eunuch
 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)
 execute by shooting to death (by firing squad)
 financial penalty;  pecuniary punishment
 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
 cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
 cops and robbers (hide-and-seek game)
 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)
 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)
 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)
 condemned person;  prisoner
 tattooing (form of punishment in ancient China)
 to punish (esp. with death)
 international criminal law
 to punish (esp. with death)
 adding a penalty to a crime (e.g. fines, prison);  penalizing a crime
 Rules of Criminal Procedure
 discretionary sentence;  discretionary penalty
 retributivism;  retributive justice;  principle of punitive justice;  belief that crimes deserve suitable punishment