Difference between Convict and Punish

CONVICT vs PUNISH: NOUN

A person found or declared guilty of an offense or crime.
A person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
A person serving a sentence of imprisonment.
A criminal sentenced to penal servitude.
A person proved or found guilty of an offense alleged against him; espeeially,one found guilty, after trial before a legal tribunal, by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision; hence, a person undergoing penal servitude; a convicted prisoner.
A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.
A person who has been convicted of a criminal offence
A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
A person deported to a penal colony.
A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and stripes.

To find or prove (someone) guilty of an offense or crime, especially by the verdict of a court.
To show or declare to be blameworthy; condemn.
To return a verdict of guilty in a court.
To make aware of one's sinfulness or guilt.

To deal with roughly or harshly; -- chiefly used with regard to a contest.
To injure, as by beating; to pommel.
To inflict a penalty for (an offense) upon the offender; to repay, as a fault, crime, etc., with pain or loss.
To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten

Overcome; conquered.
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
To show by proof or evidence.
To confute; prove or show to be false.
To convince of wrong-doing or sin; bring (one) to the belief or consciousness that one has done wrong; awaken the conscience of.
To prove or find guilty of an offense charged; specifically, to determine or adjudge to be guilty after trial before a legal tribunal, as by the verdict of a jury or other legal decision: as, to convict the prisoner of felony.

To inflict a penalty on; visit judicially with pain, loss, confinement, death, or other penalty; castigate; chastise.
To reward or visit with pain or suffering inflicted on the offender: applied to the crime or offense: as, to punish murder or theft.
To handle severely: as, to punish an opponent in a boxing-match or a pitcher in a baseball game; to punish (that is, to-stimulate by whip or spur) a horse in running a race.
To make a considerable inroad on; make away with a good quantity of.
Synonyms Chasten, etc. (see chastise), scourge, whip, lash, correct, discipline.
Impose a penalty on
Inflict punishment on

Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Indict, Conviction, Gaolbird, Con, Jailbird, Inmate

Stifle, Enforce, Criminalize, Punitive, Chasten, Scold, Sanction, Restrain, Castigate, Impose, Punishment, Chastise, Condemn, Prosecute, Penalize

Detained, Accused, Convince, Prisoners, Offender, Punish, Judge, Prisoner, Sentencing, Defendant, Sentenced, Sentence, Prosecute, Con, Inmate

Penalties, Stifle, Enforce, Criminalize, Punitive, Chasten, Scold, Sanction, Restrain, Castigate, Impose, Punishment, Condemn, Prosecute, Penalize

His opinion helped convict a lot of people.
Charges: felony domestic assault, false imprisonment, convict mittimus.
Miscellaneous convict ledgers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Yet the convict does not openly acknowledge Pip.
Technically, to convict him of war crimes is to convict him of ending the war.
World Heritage listed Port Arthur Historic Site is the best preserved convict site in Australia, and among the most significant convict era sites worldwide.
In America, for example, incarcerating a federal convict costs eight times as much as putting the same convict on probation.
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the convict leasing period and what it meant to be a convict in the system.
Various attempts to convict him of assisted suicide, however, were stymied by juries refusing to convict.
He then asked me if I could convict William Cummings; he said that if I could convict Bill, I need not convict myself.

States to punish acts committed outside their territory?
God planned to punish her for her false teaching and punish her followers for accepting her false teaching!
State may no more punish making a film that depicts those offenses than it may punish writing a book that depicts them.
The law can only punish him for his crimes but a higher power will punish him for his sins.
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and punish offences against the law of nations.
The prosecutor cannot argue punish him once for this crime and then punish him again for his prior convictions.
This is why courts do not punish the teenagers like they punish the adults when they commit a crime.
The difference lies not in whether the law should punish convicted murderers, but how it should punish them.
At the same time that we punish more, we should punish less.
They should punish the individuals or punish the company if they do something wrong, but do not punish passive investors.