General
The most well-known form of punishment connected to retribution...
What is the death penalty?
In the country of Brunei, if you are a homosexual or commit adultery it is a capital offense. The punishment is...
What is stoning to death?
The year Massachusetts abolished the death penalty...
What is 1984?
The year the U.N. Commission on Human rights voted in favor of a moratorium on the death penalty…
What is 1999?
The modern word retribution derives from the old Latin retribuere which directly translates to...
What is to pay back?
You moved to South Korea and follow their laws. You murder someone, and in South Korea, that is a capital offense. The punishment you receive is...
What is execution by hanging?
The number of states that still use the death penalty...
What is 30 states?
In this country, drug traffickers are sentenced to death. You may be presumed to be a drug trafficker if you have more than a third of an ounce of a drug in your possession.
What is the Philippines?
The thought of doing harm to someone who has wronged you is natural. It acts in every living thing. Retribution gives the government and court the power of putting people down of giving them harsh punishments for severe crimes. We mainly use retribution because...
What are these punishments are a social expression of the personal vengeance the criminal's victims feel?
You are caught littering near a koi pond in America, the punishment you receive is...
What is being fined $1,000?
These four states have gubernatorial moratoria...
What are Pennsylvania, Colorado, California, and Oregon?
The two countries that use execution for people under the age of eighteen the most...
What are China and Iran?
Two other punishments that are forms of retribution…
What are severe fines and long periods of incarceration?
You are arrested for possession and selling drugs in France, the punishment you receive is...
What are 10 years in prison and a €7.5 million fine?
The second reason a governor will change the sentence from the death penalty to life in prison besides that the voters will refuse to repeal the death penalty...
What is he/she refuses to be responsible for accidental execution the wrongfully convicted since the justice system is not “infallible?”
The number of U.N. countries that retain capital punishment...
What are 55 countries?
The phrases used in biblical times is an example of retribution...
What is "an eye for an eye" and "a tooth for a tooth"?
You are caught stealing a chapstick from CVS in the middle, the punishment you receive is...
What is a hand being cut off?
The number of states that abolished the death penalty...
What is 20 states?
Three things that can get you killed in China as a Captial offense…
What are corruption, embezzling, drug-related crimes?