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Retribution may refer to: Punishment; Retributive justice, a theory of justice Divine retribution, retributive justice in a religious context; Revenge, a harmful ...
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.
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).
The principle of Lex talionis in Islam is Qiṣāṣ (Arabic: قصاص) as mentioned in Qur'an, 2:178: "O you who have believed, prescribed for you is legal retribution (Qisas) for those murdered – the free for the free, the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. But whoever overlooks from his brother anything, then there should ...
The former president is running first and foremost to punish his enemies.
'accountability, following up after, pursuing or prosecuting') is an Islamic term interpreted to mean "retaliation in kind", [1] [2] "eye for an eye", or retributive justice. Qisas and diyya applied as an alternative in cases where retaliation conditions not met are two of several forms of punishment in classical/traditional Islamic criminal ...
Trump's calls for vengeance against political opponents have seeped into public life. Librarians are harassed, teachers vilified, election workers threatened.
Trump is pushing for the return of Schedule F, which would make it easier for a president to fire government workers. But groups are trying to stop him from getting that power.