They appease those sections of public opinion which demand retributive punishment.

Retributive punishment by itself does not bring justice.

The etymology of the word "purgatory", he remarked, indicates cleansing, not simply retributive punishment.

Retributive punishment restores the balance by cancelling out this advantage with a commensurate disadvantage.

This office had the goal of moving the justice system away from retributive punishments toward processes that would help heal those harmed and restore communities.

The destruction of a life may be accepted in some special circumstances, such as self-defence or just war; but retributive punishment is never enough to justify it.

She expected the teacher to talk about a time-out chair, or some retributive punishment that would be handed out if Peter was again taunted by the in crowd.

For example, retributive punishment might help inculcate law-abiding ideology in the populace by telling them that breaking the law is wicked and deserves punishment.

While the Old Testament quote in the previous verse was a reference to retributive punishment, here Jesus uses the word resist, which has been seen as far broader.

Iran has postponed blinding a man with acid following an international outcry over the retributive punishment imposed after he was found guilty of doing the same to a woman who refused to marry him.

It is clear by rates of incarceration, prior to this amendment most judges focused entirely on punishment and did not take into the account the effects of retributive punishment on recidivism rates .

Punishment would consequently also dwindle in importance as the division of labour progresses, and punitive law be replaced by 'restitutive law' which requires lawbreakers to make reparation to their victims rather than suffer retributive punishment.

This view opens the possibility of seeing Hell not as retributive punishment, but rather as an option that God allows, so that people who do not wish to be with God are not forced to be.

An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, known as the principle of lex talionis, is an ancient statement of the principle of retributive punishment dating back to the Code of Hammurabi.

"In meting out the hangman's justice ... the sessions court has regrettably missed an opportunity to turn the discourse away from retributive punishment to constructive dialogue on policing and legal reforms," it wrote under the headline, "Crimes death can't wish away."

In primitive life, violations are regarded with particular horror, because they are frequently held to be not only infringements of established ways of the tribe, but as offenses against the gods, offenses which involve the whole tribe in the retributive punishments of the gods.