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All the PO lawyers rewriting witness statements must go to jail. All the prosecutors must go to jail for negligence and malpractice.
by msie 3y ago
All the PO lawyers rewriting witness statements must go to jail. All the prosecutors must go to jail for negligence and malpractice.
- dougSF70 3y ago100% Agree...prison time, public excoriation and significant financial penalties.
- droopyEyelids 3y agoIn china they have a saying "A punishment milder than death would not sufficiently assuage public indignation" https://www.tiktok.com/@chinesedemystified/video/7112311651390557486 https://www.tiktok.com/@chinesedemystified/video/71123116513... I only post this as a fascinating example of how different Western and Chinese perspectives can be. Not that these people would be killed in China, or that it would be justice if they were- but we don't even have this in our vocabulary!
- jpgvm 3y agoI doubt they would have been executed in this case but for heinous corporate crime China doesn't hesitate to apply the death penalty to executives: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375638.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8375638.stm
- plagiarist 3y agoWe have "death is too good for him" and the West, at least the US, has no shortage of bloodthirsty Calvinist Predestination believers who love to imagine people receiving punishment.
- SoftTalker 3y agoOdd that so often here on HN we talk about how prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate... yet whenever some CEO or high level official is caught in malfeasance, we insist that "sending them to jail" is the only proper response.
- nothercastle 3y agoYes prison does deter white collar crime. Petty crime probably not but this kind of shit absolutely.
- dylan604 3y agoi'd posit that you're jumping to a conclusion. we've never actually tried prosecuting/convicting/incarcerating CEOs or other high level officials, so we don't know what the deterrent on that would actually be. we need to run the experiments through to the end to see.
- WalterBright 3y agoKen Lay of Enron.
- jzb 3y agoThe exception that proves the rule. It would have been more accurate for OP to have said we haven't tried prosecuting and imprisoning CEOs, etc, with the same vigor we apply to street crime. Every great once in a while, yes, we actually prosecute the hell out of a few executives. But it's hardly commonplace.
- teddyh 3y agoI suspect that it’s not really the crimes, per se, which makes a CEO be prosecuted. Like Joseph Nacchio.
- bloqs 3y agoI think because both things can be correct. Prison is a deterrent to people who participate in society to a high level, but not to those who fundamentally reject society as they are at the bottom of the pyramid.
- arp242 3y agoThere are different people on HN with differing views. I, for one, would never claim that "prisons don't work, don't deter crime, don't rehabilitate" without any qualifiers. Maybe some specific systems have some problems, but that's a very different thing than "prisons" as a concept.