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
This kind of justice is called retributive justice, and it’s contrary to Winn’s entire approach.
From Slate • Jul. 1, 2020
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
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
