"Corporations aren't people though. For one, corporations are just groups of people" I agree with you. The law disagrees by making them people under law. They

"Corporations aren't people though. For one, corporations are just groups of people" I agree with you. The law disagrees by making them people under law. They can own assets, sue, and be sued. If they're people, I want them to have equal accountability, not just power. That includes severe punishment. "What purpose does this serve?" With people, the purpose of capital punishment is three fold: justice for victims of horrible crimes; remove an offender who might do it again; strong deterrent to others. Let's say we had evidence of a chemical company lying about the safety of its products that killed people. Not a miscalculation but hiding evidence. It gets the death penalty with executives losing their money, all jobs are lost, and its products disappear permanently. Individuals involved are criminally charged, too. People also hear the next company that kills people to get rich will be treated the same. You think the executives of the next company will do that? You think the employees, whose jobs are on the line, will be as likely to stay silent or more likely to blow the whistle? Do you think the shareholders will reward people who avoid or run headfirst into the corporate, death penalty? I'm sure plenty of evil will happen. The death penalty would probably be rare for established businesses. It would probably be more fly by night operators. Yet, I bet that level of accountability would make us safer. When it didn't, the victims would get real justice.