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Argument: Corp personhood means bad CEOs are guilty of murder

Issue Report: Corporate personhood

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Rob Warmowski. “Kill a company, face murder charges.” Huffington Post. January 22, 2010: “Now that the personhood of corporations has been sustained, expanded and leveraged by Supreme Court right-wing activists, what are other ramifications? […] Shouldn’t it follow that when a corporation is bankrupted — killed — by its reckless management that its executives could be found guilty of the capital crime of murder? […] To snuff an entity so endowed – that possesses free speech rights, overseas travel rights, legal state citizen rights, the right to sue and be sued, that can be libeled, and other rights — seems no less than a crime, surely a matter for the justice system. And wouldn’t that help? Wouldn’t adding murder charges to the consequences of executive failure in corporate stewardship go a long way toward restoring the long-lost arrangement where the corporation serves the society, as opposed to the other way around? […] Put another way, if the the penalty that management faced for causing bankruptcy was an orange jumpsuit instead of a golden parachute, wouldn’t we see less wild-west, insanely reckless capitalism from our economic engines?”