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Retribution, an 1818 play by John Dillon; Retribution (Southworth novel), an 1849 novel by E. D. E. N. Southworth "Retribution", an 1846 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; see Mills of God; Retribution, a 2007 novel in the Warhammer Von Carstein trilogy by Steven Savile; Retribution, a 2007 Dreamland novel by Jim DeFelice and Dale Brown
Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.
Justice and Divine Vengeance Pursuing Crime by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, c. 1805 –1808. Revenge is defined as committing a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real [1] or perceived. [2]
Adam Jones and Nicholas Robinson have classified this as a subaltern genocide, meaning "genocide by the oppressed", and that it contains "morally plausible" elements of retribution or revenge. Jones points out that this type of genocide is less likely to be condemned and may even be welcomed, despite the torture and execution of thousands of ...
Retribution plot. The new Liam Neeson movie follows a father who receives a strange phone call while commuting with his kids one day. The mystery caller has rigged the car with bombs, sending the ...
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
A Fox News host who lobbied Donald Trump to pardon troops accused of war crimes and doesn’t want women serving in combat could be leading the nation’s military. An accused sexual predator who ...
Divine retribution is a major theme in the Greek world view, providing the unifying theme of the tragedies of Sophocles and many other literary works. [8] Hesiod states: "Also deadly Nyx bore Nemesis an affliction to mortals subject to death" ( Theogony , 223, though perhaps an interpolated line).