What was the punishment for being caught after escaping slavery in the south?

The worse possible punishment is an public execution in front of the slaves in order to show the other slaves to disperse the through of running away or the runaway slave can be killed right in the place where the slave hunters found them.

Sometimes slave owners chopped their slaves' feet to keep them from running away again. Others, who are more fortunate will be whipped countless times on their backs in public