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retributive
1. favours restorative rather than retributive justice;
2. retributive justice, and the notion that people should suffer for
3. ‘God’ the Creator never intended retributive and threatening ultimatums towards “sinners” in which non-compliance to His laws would result in the excruciatingly painful and eternal destiny of Hell with Satan, which many people may believe, where the pain of fire burns forever
4. It said punishment is the infliction of a penalty of pain or loss or other retributive burdens by a duly qualified officer, as prescribed by law
5. or retributive outcome,' she maintained, wagging a feminine finger
6. On a subject so overpowering I desire to speak with profound caution and reserve; but I acknowledge that the positiveness with which both good and bad men at the present time decide against any retributive infliction, seems to me at variance both with Scripture and the analogies of the world that now is
7. start the retributive process by returning as these twins
8. Of the three objects which may be contemplated in the infliction of penal suffering—(1) vengeance, (2) prevention, or (3) the reformation of the offender,—the first, vengeance, or the retributive infliction of pain or death for wrong committed, —'the due reward’ of evil deeds,—suffering inflicted because it is deserved,— has latterly, through the influence of a few, chiefly skeptical, philosophers, been excluded from the objects aimed at in modern criminal legislation
9. It is retributive righteousness
10. Retributive Justice, the disposition to repay the sinner, must be an eternal attribute of the Everlasting King
11. The deep-seated sense of the existence of such a retributive system in the creation often breaks like volcanic fire through the superimposed strata of modern artificial philosophy and legislation
12. He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the faithful service of the heart; so rendered and so free from any mercenary taint, he had such an exalted respect for it, that in the retributive arrangements made by his own mind--we all make such arrangements, more or less--
13. "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use
14. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify
15. The Hebrew law, "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," the retributive justice known to mankind thousands of years ago, seems far better suited to the court of contemporary scientists than the law of love which Christ preached 1800 years ago, and which was to replace this identical law of justice
