Hang 'em High
Got milk?
Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit the Chinese don't fuck around with criminals. If we executed a few of our so-called "white-collar" criminals, we'd have far fewer Tycos and Enrons. Seeing a thief slowly suffocating to death at the end of a short rope may be the best crime deterrent ever invented.
Two men have been given the death penalty for their involvement in China's contaminated milk scandal. The former boss of the Sanlu dairy at the centre of the scandal was given life imprisonment. They were among several sentences handed down by the court in northern China, where Sanlu is based.
The scandal, in which melamine was added to raw milk to make it appear higher in protein, led to the deaths of six babies and made some 300,000 ill.
Love 'em or hate 'em, you have to admit the Chinese don't fuck around with criminals. If we executed a few of our so-called "white-collar" criminals, we'd have far fewer Tycos and Enrons. Seeing a thief slowly suffocating to death at the end of a short rope may be the best crime deterrent ever invented.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 13:07
1 Comments:
There are a bunch of corporate executives in this country that have stolen from the shareholders in such a groteque manner that they fully deserve to be put to death. It would be interesting if executive pay were to be paralleled with differing layers of penalty for fraud or failure. You make $100 million and let or cause the company to fail and you get the executioner. If you only make $25 million the shareholders confiscate all assets and you start over from scratch. Something like that, you get the picture, it might make people think twice about getting that $100 million.
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