lex talionis

After a scandal over obtaining automatic weapons forced him from his job as an assistant district attorney in Shreveport, he began prosecuting high-stakes cases around the state on a freelance basis, driven by a passionate belief in “lex talionis,” the law of retaliation.

With the latter, the lex talionis—the law of retaliation—governs the basic rules of “eye for an eye” justice.

A curious note appears on this subject in Lex Talionis.

The lex talionis is an excellent test.

And in the natural world of ethics—where true moral life has not yet arisen—this is mere retaliation or the lex talionis;—the beginning of an endless series of vengeance and counter-vengeance, the blood-feud.