Death penalty for white-collar crime?

[Snee]

I'm thinking Bernie Madoff and the like, like.

That sounds fair, if you're gonna have the death penalty at all, for people who murder and that.

[j2k4]

I'm thinking Bernie Madoff and the like, like.

That sounds fair, if you're gonna have the death penalty at all, for people who murder and that.

Thanks, Snee.

[j2k4]

State sanctioned murder.

I lose track of how many miscarriages of Justice are carried out that we find out about.

I was just poking about in here and felt an urge to resurrect this thread and give it wee skew...

Two things:

Apart from it's vague and sloppy construction, the last sentence of Brother Rat's post compels me to ask whether 1) if the predicate assumption is innocence on occasions of the aforementioned "miscarriage(s) of justice", and 2) if opacity in the process...the "that we find out about" part - is a hindrance to public knowledge/opinion - transparency being the preferrence, here - how do things change if, instead of capital punishment, we are speaking of abortion?

[megabyteme]

Sorry I found this thread so late, it's a good topic that I considered not too long ago.

I am all for what clocker has had to say.

The vast majority of people who lost their savings were retired/elderly people who have no ability to recover from the loss. Every year, elderly people die in both the hottest and coldest days of the seasons. This is because they cannot afford the necessary cost of heat or air conditioning.

These same people must weigh the decision of whether or not to buy food.

So, yeah. I don't imagine we will ever know how many deaths can be directly attributed to "white-collar" crime, but I am sure it is a contributing factor. And those who die from it suffer long-term facing the elements of high and low temperatures, and insufficient nutrition.

Whatever penalty is imposed by The State, whether life in prison, or execution, will be far more gentle than those who die from poverty.

We hear about the thousands of people who have lost their life savings at the hands of these "white-collar" criminals and assume that all will be made right. That doesn't happen. Those who lose everything are left out in the cold. Literally.

[j2k4]

Yeah, Clocker's posts are pretty spot-on.

Sometimes it's uncanny, the way he thinks like me...

[clocker]

Ah, a right-handed complement.