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talionic

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It is difficult to conceive of a punishment other than death that could fit most serious ICL crimes in a talionic sense.
According to the Hegelian view, the history of punishment was one in which the primitive talionic rule of "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth," had gradually given way to more sophisticated concepts of proportionality.
 
 
 
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