retributive justice

Example Sentences

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So an air of retributive justice hangs over this thing like a cloud.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

And speaking of retributive justice, I can’t not talk about the one crossover cameo that actually surprised me.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

It insulates him against the suggestion that he is in some way militant or divisive and makes the focus of his campaign not retributive justice but rather harmony, racial and otherwise.

From Fox News • Feb. 1, 2019

I am sceptical about the value of retributive justice, but I decided to join the prosecution.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019

They kindled the boy's lively imagination; they represented the large subject of retributive justice, and he resolved to devote his poetic sense to one of these alarming characters.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop