Meaning of mispunish | Babel Free

Definitions

To punish inappropriately; to give the wrong amount or type of punishment, or to punish someone for an offense they did not commit.

Examples

“Multiple punitive damages are likely to mispunish defendants.”

“Some people do not correctly apply the natural law, or they tend to be biased when judging in their own cases, or they tend to mispunish, overpunish, etc.”

“Ordinarily, hate censorship theorists would be the first to distrust a law that could so mispunish – but this is not the case when it comes to hate speech law.”

“But what is a guilty person's complaint against an unreliable procedure? That it is too likely to mispunish him?”

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