retributive justice

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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

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

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

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019

He may be most justly punished; for as the claims of retributive justice have not been satisfied, so they may be demanded of him without being a second time exacted.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor