The phrase "fitting punishment" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to a punishment that is deemed appropriate for a given situation. For example: "The judge handed down a fitting punishment of six months probation for the crime."
"One day soon, we will punish you with death! - this is a fitting punishment for such dogs," he said.
And the only fitting punishment is dismissal.
He would not say what he thought might be a fitting punishment for their actions.
Asked what she thought might be fitting punishment, Pondexter said that an apology was not sufficient.
This means, among many other things, that whatever Microsoft's crimes, there cannot be a fitting punishment.
Helping remake "Hell," the brothers said, would be a fitting punishment.
But if the object is to make the punishment fit the crime, he says, he would love to see some fitting punishments for what he calls crimes of state, like homelessness, poverty and ignorance.
But most just rely on informal, internal policing forces, which Yale Law grad Jacob Loshin argued in an influential 2007 paper, " Secrets Revealed: How Magicians Protect Intellectual Property without Law," are more effective at capturing the idiosyncratic dynamics of magical tricks and potent in offering fitting punishments.
What kinds of wrongs can be morally fitting bases for punishment?
Still, a majority of Americans continue to regard the death penalty as a fitting, even biblically mandated punishment for people who murder.
Many Israeli legal experts said the punishment was fitting given both the gravity of Mr. Katsav's crimes and the added weight of his public standing.
