"In the war she joined the WAAF [Women's Auxiliary Air Force] but ran off and as punishment the authorities sent her to work in a munitions factory, which is how she ended up in this part of the world.
As a punishment, the authorities cut her passport in half, and she was banned from flying for a year.
Soucie said that Winslow, like many people who falsely confess, had "greater anxiety confronting authority than dealing with whatever punishment that authority imposes".
Beheading is considered one of the more humane punishments the authorities can mete out, a firing squad and stoning are other methods open to judges.
With the attackers dead, and beyond further punishment, the Israeli authorities have instead enacted a series of measures that punish their families.
They received no punishment from Haitian authorities.
Fearing punishment from the authorities, Dzhalaldinov fled to Dagestan and made sure that his sons also left Chechnya.
Berlusconi was a pioneer in turning politics into another branch of showbusiness, and it is in this world that community service has become the authorities' punishment of choice.
"We wanted them to come back home, but the government said no," said the resident, who refused to give his name, citing fear of punishment by the authorities.
Although some were Mau Mau guerillas, many were victims of collective punishment that colonial authorities imposed on large areas of the country.
