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
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
Some demanded retributive justice in online comment threads.
From New York Times • May 25, 2017
The foolish, the careless, and the truculent, can no longer avowedly declare the cries and groans of the miserable multitude to be seditious discontent; nor ascribe their sufferings to the results of retributive justice.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by Fitzhugh, George
