To: President Donald Trump, The California State House, The California State Senate, Governor Gavin Newsom, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Corporations Eligible for Death Penalty
If corporations are considered natural persons, corporations and their authorized agents should be subject to the laws governing criminal activities by individuals.
Why is this important?
In the eyes of the law Corporation are considered people. As such they should be treated no differently than individuals when they commit crimes.
Ex: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air andd to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.
In this instance the corporation and the executives involved should be eligible for the death penalty based on the severity of the crime.
French Example:
French law provides for the prosecution of companies as legal entities in a similar way as an individual offender. Under article 121-2 of the Penal Code, «legal persons, with the exception of the State, are criminally liable for the offences committed on their account by their organs or representatives».
As implied from article 121-2 of the Penal Code, companies may be held liable through imputation for acts caused by a natural person, so long as the natural person is acting as its organ or representative. A company may be prosecuted for most of the same offences as an individual offender. Therefore, the differences in the prosecution of an individual and a company result from practical realities, as detailed below.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE CONSIDERED NATURAL PERSONS THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME LAWS AND PENALTIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THOSE CRIMES
Ex: W.R. Grace and Co. and seven high-ranking employees knew a Montana mine was releasing cancer-causing asbestos into the air andd to hide the danger to workers and townspeople, according to a federal indictment unsealed yesterday. More than 1,200 people became ill, and some of them died, prosecutors said.
In this instance the corporation and the executives involved should be eligible for the death penalty based on the severity of the crime.
French Example:
French law provides for the prosecution of companies as legal entities in a similar way as an individual offender. Under article 121-2 of the Penal Code, «legal persons, with the exception of the State, are criminally liable for the offences committed on their account by their organs or representatives».
As implied from article 121-2 of the Penal Code, companies may be held liable through imputation for acts caused by a natural person, so long as the natural person is acting as its organ or representative. A company may be prosecuted for most of the same offences as an individual offender. Therefore, the differences in the prosecution of an individual and a company result from practical realities, as detailed below.
IN OTHER WORDS, IF CORPORATIONS WANT TO BE CONSIDERED NATURAL PERSONS THEY SHOULD BE SUBJECT TO THE SAME LAWS AND PENALTIES AS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO COMMITS THOSE CRIMES