Sentence examples for purpose of retribution from inspiring English sources

You can't, for the sole purpose of retribution, keep Sutcliffe in prison for ever, on the basis that his crimes were heinous.

Importantly, penance isn't punishment: it's not a bit of suffering that you deserve to have inflicted upon you by someone else for the purpose of retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, or compensation.

Making false or baseless reports for the purpose of retribution or emotional distress can lead to you being criminally investigated for false reporting.

When the court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said an execution could avoid being a "gratuitous infliction of suffering" if it served the purpose of incapacitation, deterrence or retribution.

Masipa also erred in overemphasising the purpose of rehabilitation and reformation at the cost of retribution, the prosecutors contend.

Masipa also erred in overemphasising the purpose of rehabilitation and reformation at the cost of retribution, the prosecutors contend".We will argue that the sentence is inappropriate and shockingly light for someone that killed an innocent person with gross negligence where his conduct bordered on dolus eventualis".

"That assumes that the primary purpose of the criminal justice system is retribution, but in fact the primary purposes are public safety, deterrence and rehabilitation, all of which are better served by lengthy prison sentences".

Fear of retribution remained pervasive.

"This feels like a measure of retribution".

They said they were fearful of retribution.

The real purpose, he asserts, is to challenge the very idea, on which the Polish transition to democracy was founded, of political compromise with former communists and an absence of retribution.