You are here: Jesus Central > Torry's Topics Reference > Punishments Antiquity ofCapital kinds of: Beheading.Capital kinds of: Bruising in mortars.Capital kinds of: Burning.Capital kinds of: Casting headlong from a rock.Capital kinds of: Casting into the sea.Capital kinds of: Crucifying.Capital kinds of: Cutting in pieces.Capital kinds of: Exposing to wild beasts.Capital kinds of: Hanging.Capital kinds of: Sawing asunder.Capital kinds of: Slaying with the sword.Capital kinds of: Stoning.Designed to be a warning to othersFor murder not to be commutedInflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the RomansPower of inflicting, given to magistratesSecondary kinds of: Banishment.Secondary kinds of: Binding with chains and fetters.Secondary kinds of: Confinement in a dungeon.Secondary kinds of: Confinement in stocks.Secondary kinds of: Confiscating the property.Secondary kinds of: Cutting off hands and feet.Secondary kinds of: Cutting off nose and ears. Secondary kinds of: Fine, or giving of money.Secondary kinds of: Imprisonment.Secondary kinds of: Mutilating the hands and feet.Secondary kinds of: Plucking out the hair.Secondary kinds of: Putting out the eyes.Secondary kinds of: Restitution.Secondary kinds of: Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done.Secondary kinds of: Scourging.Secondary kinds of: Selling the criminal.Secondary kinds of: Torturing.Sometimes deferred for a considerable timeSometimes deferred until God was consultedStrangers not exempted fromWere inflicted: By order of kings.Were inflicted: By order of magistrates.Were inflicted: By soldiers.Were inflicted: By the people.Were inflicted: By the witnesses.Were inflicted: Immediately after sentence was passed.Were inflicted: On the guilty.Were inflicted: Without partiality.Were inflicted: Without pity.Were sometimes commuted