As a result she was executed by being crushed to death - the standard punishment for refusal to plead - on Good Friday 1586.

To this end police forces on the contemporary model were created, and imprisonment became a standard punishment.

This too is an old story in Bohemia; it is the standard punishment for success.

However, in a 2011 address to the Oxford Union he stated that death is not the "standard punishment" for apostasy.

Not when a blaster bolt between the eyes was the standard punishment for a runaway robot.

The standard punishment was a quick toss overboard.

If convicted of killing someone in a road traffic accident, the standard punishment is at least two years in jail.

Carrick knew this, but it was one of his standard punishments.

A standard punishment in past centuries was to lock around the criminal's neck a wooden disk known as a kang.

The standard punishment for a fashion blunder is a cold stare in the elevator.