Corporate Crime

Since a corporation is considered as a person in law I think it is definitely possible that they can commit murder.
I think corporations should definitely be responsible if people are dying because of their product. Nowadays we have thousands of rules and laws so why should we tolerate a corporation putting hundreds of thousands at risk.
It is not very easy to say, who should get charged if somebody dies because of a corporation.

I think it is very clear that the person who actually caused the dead of this person should be responsible for it. But that is not always very easy, because in a corporation, you do not always know who helped with the crime. It could be that the boss who runs the company does not even know that there is one of his employees who wants to harm customers. For example:

Mister X runs a company of several thousand workers, and he makes sweets. He has a few staff members that are responsible for the hiring of employees, and he has other employees that are responsible for training. He probably will never even meet many of those employees. Now suppose a small group decides to inject poison into the sweets, and as a result, children die, and hundreds more get sick. So who should get charged?? Mister X had no intent to commit a crime, he did not know of the crime, and he didn't even know the individuals who committed the crime.
I just think that it always depends on the different situations who should get charged and that you can not say that always this one person (e.g. the shop manager) should be responsible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tylenol_murders

This article is about seven poeple who died after taking pain-relief capsules that had been poisoned in 1982 in the USA.The case remains unsolved and no suspects have been charged. A $100,000 reward, offered by Johnson&Johnson for the capture and conviction of the "Tylenol Killer," has never been claimed.

I think that just shows that we have to do something and change the law, because otherwise companies will just carry on with harming people,environment etc.