Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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retributive punishment
Punishment the purpose of which is to satisfy the community's retaliatory sense of indignation that is provoked by injustice. The fact that it is natural to hate a criminal does not prove that retributive punishment is justified." Glanville Williams, The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law 60 1957).