Name three crimes and punishments that the Puritans might witness in The Scarlet Letter?

In Puritan England (and then again in Puritan "New
England"), different crimes warranted different punishments. Puritans were religiously
zealous and were especially watchful of anyone who did not follow the laws of their
community.

Of course, in The Scarlet
Letter, Hester is "convicted" of adultery, and she is not only
shunned within the community, but is forced to wear the scarlet "A" on her
dress. This was one form of punishment.

For crimes such as
witchcraft, treason and murder, those convicted would be
put to death. Anyone who has read the play by Arthur Miller called
The Crucible will know that in America witches were never
burned. They were hung or pressed to death. (There were, of course, "tests"
the Puritans used to check for guilt regarding witchcraft, which often resulted in
death. For example, "dunking" the accused in water was one such test. If she—or
he—floated, she was a witch; if she sank, she was innocent—and
dead.)

Drinking, failing to attend church, being
vain (this would have applied to women), etc., were crimes punished
by whipping, prison, fines, or being placed in the stocks. (While locked in
stocks, often food would be thrown at the guilty party.)

In
"Bilboes, Brands, and Branks: Colonial Crimes and Punishments," James A. Cox
reports:

In
l668 in Salem, Massachusetts, John Smith and the wife of John Kitchin were fined "for
frequent absenting themselves from the public worship of God on the Lord's days." In
l682 in Maine it cost Andrew Searle five shillings merely for "wandering from place to
place" instead of "frequenting the publique worship of
god."

And woe to the man who profaned the Sabbath "by lewd
and unseemly behavior," the crime of a Boston seafaring man, one Captain Kemble. He made
the mistake of publicly kissing his wife on returning home on a Sunday after three years
at sea, a transgression that earned him several hours of public humiliation in the
stocks.