1.   When we fail to justly punish the criminal, the community sees justice aborted.

2.   At the heart of the dispute between the governor and the judges is a debate over how criminals should be punished.

3.   Dr. Bruce Perry, a psychiatrist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, who studies violence in children, agreed that juvenile criminals should be punished.

4.   Financial debacles are supposed to happen in Hong Kong or New York, not in a country where white-collar criminals can be punished as harshly as teen-age vandals.

5.   Getting to that point, of course, requires a fundamental rethinking of how criminals are punished.

6.   Rather than punishing the criminal, the state leaves it up to the mob to decide what to do.

7.   Responding to a public that is sickened by crime, politicians run on promises to punish criminals harshly.

8.   Texans can either undertake another prison building binge or find a better way punish criminals.

9.   The criminal justice system does not deter, rehabilitate or punish criminals, it said.

10.   The new Legislature, concerned that treatment was a kind of coddling, wanted to punish criminals first and foremost.