1.   Criminal cases that carry punishment of a year or less in jail are handled by the Muni Court.

2.   A first degree murder conviction carries a punishment of life without parole.

3.   Conviction on a murder charge carries a punishment of five years to life in prison.

4.   Here again, before the prison could finish its review, the Justice Ministry ordered that the punishment be carried out.

5.   None of the misdemeanor charges carries a punishment of more than a year in jail.

6.   Now it is a misdemeanor, which carries lesser punishment.

7.   That charge carries a punishment of up to life in prison but stops short of the death penalty.

8.   That plea would have been tantamount to a guilty plea, she explained, and would carry punishment.

9.   The punishment we carry for having made too many promises to too many people.

10.   Public punishments were also carried out in Kabul before the Taliban took power.