PUNISHMENTS
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Antiquity of
Power of inflicting, given to magistrates
Designed to be a warning to others
Sometimes deferred until God was consulted
Sometimes deferred for a considerable time
Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans
Strangers not exempted from
Were sometimes commuted
For murder not to be commuted
WERE INFLICTED
On the guilty
Without pity
Without partiality
By order of magistrates
By order of kings
Immediately after sentence was passed
By the witnesses
By the people
By soldiers
SECONDARY KINDS OF
Imprisonment
Confinement in a dungeon
Confinement in stocks
Fine, or giving of money
Restitution
Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done
Binding with chains and fetters
Scourging
Selling the criminal
Banishment
Torturing
Putting out the eyes
Cutting off hands and feet
Mutilating the hands and feet
Cutting off nose and ears
Plucking out the hair
Confiscating the property
CAPITAL KINDS OF
Burning
Hanging
Crucifying
Beheading
Slaying with the sword
Stoning
Cutting in pieces
Sawing asunder
Exposing to wild beasts
Bruising in mortars
Casting headlong from a rock
Casting into the sea