penalisation, penalization, penalty, punishment - the act of punishing

whacking, beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, lacing - the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows

electric shock - the use of electric shock as a form of punishment

capital punishment, death penalty, executing, execution - putting a condemned person to death

gauntlet, gantlet - a form of punishment in which a person is forced to run between two lines of men facing each other and armed with clubs or whips to beat the victim

kick in the butt - punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind

lapidation, stoning - pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)