Their physical makeup is more able to endure extreme punishment, but wooden splinters in the heart kill them easily.

Many natives were forced to do hard labor and subjected to extreme punishment and death if they resisted.

Officials said the advantage of the charge is that it offers the most extreme punishment short of death.

If this is what society wants - extreme corporal punishment in addition to prevention - we need to admit it publicly.

His predecessor had banned extreme punishments and the death penalty.

More extreme punishments included the shooting of workers if they tried to escape or they became to ill to work.

As a result, they were banished from Plymouth - an extreme punishment in this wild frontier.

The most extreme punishment imposed on those convicted was execution by burning.

"That is a rather extreme punishment," Spock said.

Despite the obvious benefits of stealing food, many slaves were deterred from doing so by the extreme punishment doled out to thieves.