11.   This is a shift from the traditional solution of relying on police and prisons to punish criminals after they have committed violent acts.

12.   Under the harsh interpretation of Islamic law governing Afghanistan today, criminals are often punished with amputation.

13.   We punish criminals by taking away their freedom and most of their privacy.

14.   Overseas human rights groups are concerned that judges ordered by the government to punish criminals quickly and severely are convicting people based on shaky evidence and rushed trials.

15.   An inefficient and corrupt judicial system often fails to punish criminals.

16.   During the crackdown, courts have been told to punish criminals quickly and severely.

17.   Executing mentally retarded people neither appropriately punishes the criminal nor serves as a deterrent to future crimes, the majority found.

18.   It severely punishes criminals, bans music, and does not allow women to work outside the home.

19.   Republicans said the bill would punish violent criminals, and they said two dozen states already have laws to punish violence against fetuses.

20.   Traditionally law enforcement agencies, as well as tribal elders, commonly punish criminals by demolishing their homes.