If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?
> If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?
Because corporate personhood is a legal fiction, and a corporate death penalty doesn't really hurt the people who a corporation stands in for very much, and hurts lots of other people a lot.
Corporate death would just be another form of bankruptcy, which hurts shareholders and employees but wouldn't harm anyone else. Actually since this would be a rare form of bankruptcy with plenty of assets, it could be set up to pay restitution to various corporate victims as well.
If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?