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The Death Penalty for Murderous Corporate Persons
23 April 2010, 2:41 pm
by Len Hart /
The Existentialist Cowboy

If corporations are ‘people’, as SCOTUS has said they are, then, by law, a corporation committing murder should be executed! A corporation like Dow or Union Carbide perpetrating mass murder should be tried and when found guilty put to death! Because corporations are now ‘people’, the same criminal penalties must apply to them as well as to the rest of us. To do otherwise violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, specifically, the ‘equal protection’ clause. How do you put a corporation to death? How do you execute a corporation?

You wipe the incorporation off the books; it no longer exists; you round up the major decision makers –the board, top execs etc –and you put them to the SAME punishment that would be exacted individuals for the same crime!

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My friend David Tingley summed it up:

•Forfeiture of all company assets to the government. All stocks become worthless on conviction. Real estate, buildings and equipment auctioned off to the highest bidder – someone willing to turn them back into an honest business perhaps?
•All senior officers of the company surrender bonuses for the 5 years preceding the offense and salary for the last two. Officers involved in the decision process leading to the death face the same jail time as an armed robber who kills
If corporations are people then they must obey the same laws that apply to people who commit mass murder, armed robbery or any number of crimes that corporations may have gotten away with simply because they were not people. Times have changed. Corporations must now live in real world where ‘evil doers’ are locked up in a dank cell or worse — getting the lethal needle in Texas. In Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.


http://www.americanpendulum.com/2010/04/death-penalty-for-murderous-corporate-persons/