retributive

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Retributive justice, particularly if not perceived as fair by all sides, is unlikely to result in healing of a very fractured community.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

Retributive Justice, justice which rewards good deeds, and inflicts punishment on offenders.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Retributive justice pierced his guilty conscience with a thousand viper stings.

From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll

Retributive justice, as the motive force of tragedy, has for us lost its meaning.

From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.

Retributive pains, by fire and steel, are also supposed to have been detected among the paintings.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various