Sentence examples for deserve punishment from inspiring English sources

Assuming that wrongdoers can, at least sometimes, deserve punishment, the next question is: why think others may punish them just because they are deserving?

People who deserve punishment are receiving help instead.

Illegal immigrants deserve punishment for breaking a law.

"Granted, you kill somebody, you deserve punishment," he said.

In any country the theft and publication of 250,000 secret government documents would deserve punishment.

The acts of the workers in the article are despicable; they deserve punishment, not union protection.

Vigilante justice and Mafia executions were seen as in principle completely illegitimate, because those who deserved punishment had already been punished or were about to be.

Desert theories are also criticised for assuming both that fact-finders can determine what offenders deserve and that the deserved punishment is necessarily the justified punishment: should people always be punished as they deserve?

"This deserves punishment," Ms. Voorhees said.

What Suarez did was unacceptable, gruesome and deserves punishment.

The prosecutors, not the law, decide who deserves punishment.