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

A bill giving the agency authority to punish environmental criminals has passed the senate and is now before Brazil's lower house.

People said that a new God had come to punish criminals.

But the lesson he draws - that maybe we could find a smarter way to punish criminals - is ignored.

Last year it produced guidelines for punishing individual criminals.

Punish criminals on his own judgment if they happen to be members of Bioron.

The bill's proponents said it was designed to punish criminals for attacks on pregnant women.

The government doesn't punish criminals but the Taliban do.

We punish criminals by taking away their freedom and most of their privacy.

Vulcan, you come close to realizing how we punish criminals.