One music expert said: "Your Cheatin' Heart" is so sad, it sounds like a judge sentencing somebody to a punishment worse than death itself."

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

In schools, the punishment for cheating could be a failing grade on the paper or in the course.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

The Museum of Crime and Punishment has exhibits that explain how experts gather evidence at the place where a crime is committed.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Parts of this program are recorded in a studio in the Museum of Crime and Punishment.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

That could create a problem for government lawyers seeking the most severe punishment for the accused C spending the rest of his life in prison.

VOA: special.2009.04.25

But Professor Gaechter says his team's theory was that punishment has only low costs because it needs to be used rarely and works as a threat.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

The university judicial committee decides punishment on a case by case basis.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

We are all outraged that the punishment is something that is equal to a traffic accident.

VOA: standard.2010.06.10

Lois Fischbeck of Maryland came to urge the court to ban capital punishment, even though the justices are not scheduled to take on a particular case this term that would deal with the issue directly.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05