[wwweston]

Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?

[ridgeguy]

Don'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#Ham...

[dmd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabiah_bridge_collapse is one in Israel.

[moioci]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaste... another Israeli example.

[harperlee]

No need. We can use the example of medical negligence, if your rather.