retributive justice

Example Sentences

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By saying Blacks can’t be racist, Sheryl Swoopes opened up a lane to the basket for a difficult, yet essential, conversation, and a path to restorative rather than retributive justice.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024

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

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2022

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

Crime is not punished on earth—as divines teach us it will be punished in heaven—on a principle of retributive justice, and according to our moral deserts.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various