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by echelon 939 days ago
You can't imprison or kill [1] a company.

You can impose civil or criminal penalties on the directors, but the shareholders are also (perhaps rightly) punished when you impose fines.

A government can also seize a company's assets and redistribute them to recover costs, but in doing so you often dismantle the value.

[1] (At least not in the same way you can impose capital punishment on a human.)