Lex talionis embodies which of the following principles?
A) Criminal punishment should correspond in degree and kind to the offense.
B) "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is legal punishment.
C) Vengeance is a private affair, and the duty of the victim or victim's family to carry out, not a public matter.
D) All of these are correct.
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