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• s  of or relating to or having the nature of retribution
  retributive justice demands an eye for an eye
• s  given or inflicted in requital according to merits or deserts
  retributive justice

• By most codes of retributive justice, execution is the only worthy end to such a brutal life.
• Moral tales, in a retributive, Old Testament fashion: an eye for an eye, and Ill raise you four limbs and your intestines, payable on the last page of the story.
• It sounds like waiters have a broad arsenal of retributive tactics.

• retaliatory
• relatiative
• retributory
• vindicatory

News & Articles

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• Crude oil at 26-month high
  NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Crude oil for October delivery topped $110 per barrel in New York Wednesday as U.S. officials have threatened to launch retributive strikes against Syria.
  Aug. 28, 2013 - UPI
• Crude Oil Prices Hit 26-month High
  Crude oil for October delivery topped $110 per barrel in New York Wednesday as U.S. officials have threatened to launch retributive strikes against Syria.
  Aug. 28, 2013 - HispanicBusiness.com

Quotes

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• James W. Nye in The Miami Herald
  Sir, what a magnificent spectacle of retributive justice is witnessed here today,Nye said. "In the place of that proud, defiant man, who marched out to trample under foot the Constitution and the laws of the country he had sworn to...
• Yoweri Museveni in Economist
  Visiting London this week, Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's president, said: "What we have agreed with our people is that they should face traditional justice, which is more compensatory than a retributive system."
• Morgan Tsvangirai in Bloomberg
  At least 200,000 people have been forced to flee their homes and more than 20,000 homes have been destroyed because of the government's "violent retributive agenda," Tsvangirai said in an e-mailed statement today.