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Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?
by wwweston 12y ago
Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?
- harperlee 12y agoNo need. We can use the example of medical negligence, if your rather.
- dmd 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabiah_bridge_collapse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabiah_bridge_collapse is one in Israel.
- moioci 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaste... another Israeli example.
- ridgeguy 12y agoDon't know if this was ever enforced, but in the Code of Hammurabi (~1754 BC), Sections 229 and 230 prescribed capital punishment in the event a builder constructed a house, which then fell and killed someone. http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html#Hammurabi.Law.228 http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html#Ham...