If corporations are people, can they be executed for being convicted of crimes? Many major corporations would face execution if so. Enron, Exxon, and BP would be prime candidates for execution. Between the three, billions of dollars have been stolen from stockholders, the lobbying industry has been bloated by the thirst for exponential profit which extends these problems further, corruption of gov't officials to change energy prices has been perpetuated, the lives of countless fisherman and seamen of some sort have been irreparably altered, the impact on the various ecosystems affected by oil spills is vast and will not be known for decades, hundreds of employees and contractors have been killed by accidents that could have been prevented if the almighty dollar wasn't the only thing on the plant or oil platform's safety inspector's mind, the economies and individual markets of not only the immediately affected states but countless interconnected economies and markets of other states have been all but destroyed. If you ask me (and I realize that you haven't), I think that a man who killed three people in cold blood over a crack deal gone wrong is way less dangerous than a global corporation who routinely cuts corners that result in preventable deaths, has participated in destroying millions of acres of invaluable ecosystems while contributing to our environmental problems more than any other single corporation, and pays off entire governments to allow them to keep acting this way as long as money keeps rolling in. Yes, the murderer should be taken out of society but the entity responsible for the much more egregious crimes against humanity should not be given a pass simply because they have more money than everyone else. It seems that the more money you have, the more atrocious crimes you can commit.
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