What's the right adverb for describing a punitive action that is done when the one being punished is actually not guilty?
For example,
Those who had been ___________ly thrown into prisons and withered in them for years, were all now suddenly released.
Father often gave his sons a good deal of spanking ______________ly, which took its own tally on him when they grew up.
All those cases, in which the judge had issued a capital punishment ____________ly, weighed on him now greatly.
(I place ly in the end of each blank because adverbs usually end that way in English; however, if there is an adverb of some other form, that will be fine, too)