retributive justice
Example Sentences
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By saying Blacks can’t be racist, Sheryl Swoopes opened up a lane to the basket for a difficult, yet essential, conversation, and a path to restorative rather than retributive justice.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024
It insulates him against the suggestion that he is in some way militant or divisive and makes the focus of his campaign not retributive justice but rather harmony, racial and otherwise.
From Fox News • Feb. 1, 2019
I am sceptical about the value of retributive justice, but I decided to join the prosecution.
From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2019
Some demanded retributive justice in online comment threads.
From New York Times • May 25, 2017
Considerable sympathy was in his tone; but Egbert gave no more attention to this view of retributive justice than he had vouchsafed to the question preceding it.
From The Happy Warrior by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
