| They also exclude the belief in immortality of the soul and the punishment and rewards of the afterworld. |
| Most Austrians and many other Europeans abhor capital punishment as cruel and inhumane. |
| Some slaves were treated well, but there were few restraints on their owners' powers, and physical punishment and sexual abuse were common. |
| This is a time when love is like punishment in that you are falling for somebody unable to reciprocate openly. |
| The choice of whipping underscored the attempt to continue an antebellum form of punishment and to reinvent techniques to control the black body. |
| Compassionate assistance cannot, of course, be a substitute for the punishment of criminal acts or atonement for wrongdoing. |
