Sentence examples for retributive justice from inspiring English sources

John Cottingham (1979) famously distinguished nine "varieties of retribution", arguing that much discussion of retributive justice is confused because people are not clear what they mean.

It was a form of retributive justice.

Kolbert's article demonstrates the distinction between restorative and retributive justice.

I think Mr Friedersdorf misses in his remarks the psychological and moral centrality of retributive justice.

This is more than the simple retributive justice of an "eye for an eye".

But Sri Lanka has already rejected the notion of "retributive justice".

The determined grind of retributive justice was about all that remained.

Reacher as an agent of retributive justice, executing the predators on the innocent and defenceless.

Some argue that the kind of retributive justice offered by the ICC is inappropriate in Africa.

I am convinced that retributive justice and the commitment to reconciliation are not contradictory.

Pre-emptive justice is surely preferable to the retributive justice we settle for today.