Sentence examples for deserving punishment from inspiring English sources

Far from deserving punishment for her cry for help, she deserves to be released.

The laws of physics might be thought to imply that we are no more free and responsible for our "choices", and therefore no more capable of deserving punishment, than any other physical object, be it a falling tree or a wild animal.

But a problem remains: as long as retaliation is framed as deserving punishment, it is viewed favorably and encouraged.

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.

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

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.

Illegal immigrants deserve punishment for breaking a law.

People who deserve punishment are receiving help instead.