Punishment will be found described in the articles in this work on Criminal Law, Imprisonment, Prisons (p. 420), Flogging, Execution, Pillory, &c. See also the description of Tortures, Boot, Guillotine, Thumb-screw, Branks, Joug, Ducking-stool, Stocks, &c.; the articles on the several crimes; and W. Andrews, Old-time Punishments (1891). The question of future punishment is treated in the article HELL.
Punishment
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 493
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