Difference between Punished and Tortured

PUNISHED vs TORTURED: ADJECTIVE

That has been the object of punishment
Subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience)

Punishment, Prosecuted, Tarred and feathered, Corrected, Tortured, Chastened, Reproved, Admonished, Rebuked, Chastised, Disciplined, Fined, Censured, Reprimanded, Penalized

Mistreated, Interrogated, Tortura, Long suffering, Afflicted, Torn, Troubled, Retribution, Subjected, Beaten, Abused, Sorrowful, Punished, Anguished, Tormented

Victimized, Punishment, Prosecuted, Corrected, Tortured, Chastened, Reproved, Admonished, Rebuked, Chastised, Disciplined, Fined, Censured, Reprimanded, Penalized

Brutalized, Mistreated, Interrogated, Long suffering, Afflicted, Torn, Troubled, Retribution, Subjected, Beaten, Abused, Sorrowful, Punished, Anguished, Tormented

People will be punished for their sins accordingly.
Others think the parents should be punished instead.
Those who left were arrested and severely punished.
Even minor offenses could be punished by death, and family members and even neighbors could be punished along with the offender.
This is because similar offences are punished with varying severity, which contradicts the requirement that comparably serious crimes are punished in comparably serious ways.
She should be punished the same way as Larry should be punished?
He shall be prosecuted and punished accordingly, or, he may be punished for contempt.
The Jewish congregations punished dissenters with anathema very similar to the way in which the Christian churches punished heretics.
If an employee is punished for lateness, he or she must be punished for each late occurrence thereafter.
When fraud is committed, the perpetrators should be punished and punished severely.

And I would have tortured you for eternity.
Indian citizen should tortured or embarassed like me?
Jesus was mocked, tortured, and crucified, he died.
Karmann Ghias, tortured boys, and The Psychedelic Furs.
Why does it matter how many were tortured worse, and how many were tortured less severely?
He was just really tormented and tortured, he was such a tortured soul, you know?
Police from Chandgaon Police Station arrested, tortured, and killed Habib and tortured his colleague Arif.
Suppose we tortured them and all they had to do was to change their story to stop being tortured.
Two innocent people were jailed and tortured based solely on allegations from another prisoner who fabricated information after having been tortured himself.
John Birch who, for decades, tortured African American men and tortured confessions out of them.