What is "eye for an eye"

n. (context idiomatic English) compensation#English for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting of an identical injury on that person.

"An eye for an eye", or the law of retaliation, is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation.

The principle is sometimes referred using the Latin term lex talionis or the law of talion. The English word talion (from the Latin'' talio'' ) means a retaliation authorized by law, in which the punishment corresponds in kind and degree to the injury.

Eye for an Eye is a 1996 American psychological thriller film, directed by John Schlesinger and written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. The film stars Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris, Beverly D'Angelo and Joe Mantegna. The story was adapted from Erika Holzer's novel of the same name. The film opened on January 12, 1996.

This film was remade in India as the Hindi film Dushman (1998), starring Kajol in a double role.

Eye for an Eye is a fictitious court show, that was "presided" over by former prosecutor Akim Anastopoulo. Anastopoulo is known on the court show by nickname Judge "Extreme Akim". The nickname was meant to characterize the "judge's" severe and eccentric sentences dispensed to guilty parties on the program, known as "paybacks".

Being that it was a pseudo-court show in an era in which most court programming used an arbitration-based reality format, Eye for an Eye was a nontraditional series within the judicial genre. This, however, was only one of many reasons as to why the highly unconventional series was considered a nontraditional court show, the program having adopted many maneuvers that were atypical to the traditional present court shows.

Taped at a studio in Dallas, Texas, the courtroom series aired daily and ran in first-run syndication from 2003 through 2009. The court show had a total of 5 seasons

Eye for an Eye is a Polish hardcore punk rock band founded in 1997 in Bielsko-Biała. EFAE, as it is also known, plays an old school style of punk, more along the veins of The Exploited or even, some say, Agnostic Front. The punk stylings of EFAE has been compared to fellow countrymen Post Regiment, perhaps mostly due to the common factor of a female vocalist. However, EFAE's Anna Koziel's vocal style is remarkably different from the nowadays disbanded Post Regiment's Dominika "Nika" Domczyk's style. EFAE has been touring relatively extensively in a musical climate that is not at the moment very receptive for retro trends.

Eye for an Eye is the first studio album by American heavy metal band Corrosion of Conformity released in 1984. In 2012, it was re-released by Candlelight Records with the entire "Six Songs With Mike Singing EP" included as bonus tracks.

An eye for an eye is a quotation from Exodus 21:23–27, expressing a principle of retributive justice. Eye for an Eye may also refer to:

In film

• Eye for Eye (1918 film), starring Alla Nazimova
• An Eye for an Eye (1957 film), starring Curd Jürgens
• An Eye for an Eye (1966 film), starring Slim Pickens
• An Eye for an Eye (1981 film), starring Chuck Norris
• Eye for an Eye (1996 film), starring Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Ed Harris
• Eye for an Eye (2008 film), a South Korean film starring Han Suk-kyu

In literature

• An Eye for an Eye (novel), a novel by Anthony Trollope
• An Eye for an Eye, a 2003 novella in the Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman
• An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945, a history book by John Sack

In music

• Eye for an Eye, a Boston hardcore band
• Eye for an Eye (band), a Polish punk rock band
• Eye for an Eye (album), a 1984 album by Corrosion of Conformity
• "Eye for an Eye (Your Beef is Mines)", a song from Mobb Deep's 1995 album The Infamous
• "Eye for an Eye", a 2003 single by the British band Unkle
• "Eye for an Eye", a song by Quiet Riot from Quiet Riot II
• "Eye for an Eye" (song), a song by Soulfly

In television

• Eye for an Eye (TV series), a "courtroom" reality television program
• "Eye for an Eye", an episode of the television series War of the Worlds
• "Eye for an Eye", an episode of the animated Nickelodeon television series Danny Phantom
• "An Eye for An Eye", Season 2 episode 17 of NCIS

Eye for an Eye is a 2008 South Korean film.

"Eye for an Eye" is the first single by metal band Soulfly, released in 1998. The song is the first track of the debut album Soulfly. However, "Eye for an Eye" is the tenth single written by Max Cavalera overall. His last single was Sepultura's " Ratamahatta" before he left the band and formed Soulfly.

The first Soulfly song features Fear Factory members Dino Cazares and Burton C. Bell as guests and plays fast, groovy riff lasting over 3½ minutes.