Discussion for article #238727
Corporate terrorist getting life in prison. Wouldnāt that be something? Think the terrorism label is too harsh? One willingly kills for religious ideology, the other willingly kills for profit. Which one is worse?
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And since corporations are people too my friend, it also should receive a similar punishment.
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Parnell and his co-defendants were never charged with sickening or killing anybody. Instead prosecutors used the seven-week trial to lay out a paper trail of emails, lab results and billing records to show Parnell's company defrauded customers by using falsified test results to cover up lab screenings that showed batches of peanut butter contained salmonella. The tainted goods were shipped to Kellogg's and other food processors for use in products from snack crackers to pet food.
The author seems to miss the point of prosecutors spending weeks proving the defendants ādefrauded customers by using falsified test results to cover up lab screenings that showed batches of peanut butter contained salmonella. The tainted goods were shipped to Kelloggās and other food processors for use in products from snack crackers to pet food.ā Knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted food to high volume food retailers proves the defendants knew it was likely but didnāt care if people got sick and died from eating the poison they sold.
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Send this asshole away for the rest of his natural life ā preferably a prison that skimps heavily on food safety.
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Kill him and kill the corporation (if it still exists). Force them to sell off their assets for pennies.
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This guyās lucky heās not in China, they would have executed him by now.
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And rightfully so. I feel the same way about this human as I felt about those Chinese officials who deliberately poisoned and killed so many of our pets. End their lives! ā Now!! Iāll pull the trigger, if necessary.
Edit: Regarding your China reference, I know you meant the baby food scandal. I felt just as much disgust with that story as well. These greed-monsters are all alike.
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Under Citizens United, one could argue that revoking a corporate charter is the death penalty, so the corporation would have all sorts of appeal rights. It could take decades to carry out the punishment. And if the corporation is registered in a state that doesnāt have the death penalty, it would be impossible to revoke a corporate charter.
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Right you are. However, if the corporation really is a person, why couldnāt I just use my Second Amendment right and just shoot the corporation, killing it that way? (See, you dummy SCOTUS Justices, corporations are not people ā¦ my friends).
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He could have created a life sentence for anyone in the country for caring more about his profits than customers.
If heād used an AK-47 heād be on death row. He was just as malevolent. Let him rot.
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Parnell and his co-defendants were never charged with sickening or killing anybody.
He still sickens me, even if his contaminated product didnāt.
The asshole worked pretty hard to try to get away with selling food that could kill people.
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Good-if corporations want to be people too, then they should be sentenced like people!
The only thing that will stop a bad corporation with salmonella is a good corporation with salmonella. So letās all stop blaming the salmonella.
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Iām bettinā the ālife sentenceā absurdity will get him offā¦
This is an ironic result of the increasingly punitive nature of laws that are usually applied only against āthe little peopleā. You can get life for enough ā and expensive enough ā counts of embezzlement or writing bad checks or other kinds of fraud. Itās just usually not applied all the way to the top.
Proving that a corporate executive knowingly caused death is much, much harder, because of court decisions that pretty much require video of them giving a kill order (See, for example Massey Coal). So this is really only unprecedented in that itās not being applied to a mid-level drug dealer or money-launderer.
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If his protectors in the government fell out of favor or had to throw him under the train to cover up all the bribes theyād taken, sure he would have.
TPM:
Federal court officers have recommended a sentence of life in prison for a peanut company executive convicted of selling salmonella-tainted food, a move that attorneys on both sides called āunprecedentedā for a food-poisoning case.
First, the Peanut Execs, next: the Banksters.
(Hey, a boy can dream, canāt he?)
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A terrorist who hurt half as many people would get the death penalty. Feed him salmonella peanut butter, one jar for every victim. If he lives, so be it.