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"Just dessert" is a theory that a criminal sentence should be punishment for the offender's specific crime, rather than a deterrent for future bad behavior.

This spelling is disputed. A very plausible explanation has its root in the word "deserving" and so a single "s" is used.

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/just-deserts.html

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/receiving+just+deserts

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