Punishment

In criminal law. Some pain or penalty warranted by law, inflicted on a person for the commission of a crime or misdemeanor, or for the omission of the performance of an act required by law, by the judgment and command of some lawful court. Punishments are. either corporal or not corporal. The former are: Death, which is usually denominated "capital punishment;" imprisonment, which is either with or without labor (see "Penitentiary"); whipping, in some states; and banishment. The punishments which are not corporal are: Pines, forfeitures; suspension or deprivation of some political or civil right; deprivation of office, and being rendered incapable to hold office; compulsion to remove nuisances.