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Death Penalty For White Colloar Crimes

Death Penalty For White Collar Crimes

  • Yes

    Votes: 5 9.6%

  • No

    Votes: 47 90.4%
  • Total voters
    52
  • Poll closed .
Absolutely,the law isn't about " Justice " anyway.The USA,been killing innocent people forever.White collar crimes are crime's.Think about all the lives B.Madoff destroyed.
 
Mycroft said:
I don't condone the death penalty for anything other than the most heinous of crimes...murder, rape, etc.

Though I'll consider supporting mandatory death penalty for anyone who commits a crime while in physical possession of a firearm...whether they use it or not.
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Really. So if I committed the crime of bribery while physically carrying a firearm - even one that I can legally carry - I should be put to death?
 
I don't support the death penalty for murderers given the number of innocent people on death row. I certainly won't support it for a non violent property crime. In fact I'd call it one of the stupider ideas I've heard. Either that or perhaps something that Joe Stalin might have supported.
 
joG said:
White collar criminals that kill others albeit indirectly should be treated like other criminals that caused similar damage.
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In the US I dont think the DP is applied to people that cause death indirectly.
 
Dobsdot00 said:
Would you support the death penalty for white collar crimes?
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Define White Collar Crimes. That could be anything from embezzlement to cheating on your taxes.

Who would you like to see put to death?
 
joG said:
White collar criminals that kill others albeit indirectly should be treated like other criminals that caused similar damage.
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Do they not if it can be proven?
 
Declan said:
Depends on the crime. Probably not for most white collar crimes, but if someone made an intentional decision to do something they reasonably knew would result in lots of deaths, maybe.
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That would not be a white collar crime.
 
Mason66 said:
That would not be a white collar crime.
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If a corporate CEO decides it is better to let tainted food into the market place rather than recall the food, it is a white collar crime.
 
Lursa said:
In the US I dont think the DP is applied to people that cause death indirectly.
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The only thing the death penalty is used for in the U.S. is for murder. Virtually always multiple murders.
 
Declan said:
If a corporate CEO decides it is better to let tainted food into the market place rather than recall the food, it is a white collar crime.
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Not if they can prove he knew and decided to let it out anyway. That would not be white collar.
 
Lursa said:
In the US I dont think the DP is applied to people that cause death indirectly.
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Would we let Hitler live this time around? His wer, as far as I know, all indirect killings.

PS: As I said, though, I really do not think capital punishment a good solution.
 
joG said:
Would we let Hitler live this time around? His wer, as far as I know, all indirect killings.

PS: As I said, though, I really do not think capital punishment a good solution.
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Other countries have executed people for war crimes. Has the US?

And you're in Germany...you tell me, would Germany kill Hitler?
 
Mason66 said:
Not if they can prove he knew and decided to let it out anyway. That would not be white collar.
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Yes it would be. If they decide to allow someone to die for a profit incentive, then it is white collar crime no matter how much you want to pretend it isn't. White collar is not a financial crime, it is a crime with a business financial motive.
 
Lursa said:
Other countries have executed people for war crimes. Has the US?

And you're in Germany...you tell me, would Germany kill Hitler?
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I believe the US might have been helpful in arrangements after Nuremberg.

In Germany it would be illegal to execute a mass murderer.
 
I do not support capital punishment in general.
 
Dobsdot00 said:
I got the idea for this thread from the recent execution in China of mining tycoon Liu Han.
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Ah.


China does that to provide bread and circuses for the masses, picking scapegoats and easily-assailable (almost random) rich in China and punishing them to keep those who are screwed over by the system mollified. I am absolutely 100% against our government doing that.


There are, however, some "white collar" crimes I can see supporting the death penalty for. Treason and espionage, for example.
 
Dobsdot00 said:
Would you support the death penalty for white collar crimes?
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I only support the death penalty for confirmed and absolutely verified to be guilty, murderers. No one else at all. I don't care what color their collar may be.
 
Declan said:
Yes it would be. If they decide to allow someone to die for a profit incentive, then it is white collar crime no matter how much you want to pretend it isn't. White collar is not a financial crime, it is a crime with a business financial motive.
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Name some examples.
 
cpwill said:
Ah.


China does that to provide bread and circuses for the masses, picking scapegoats and easily-assailable (almost random) rich in China and punishing them to keep those who are screwed over by the system mollified. I am absolutely 100% against our government doing that.


There are, however, some "white collar" crimes I can see supporting the death penalty for. Treason and espionage, for example.
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Treason and espionage don't fall under the FBI's definition of white collar crime.
 
tres borrachos said:
Treason and espionage don't fall under the FBI's definition of white collar crime.
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Ah.

Well then I reverse that statement. I was thinking "white collar workers = white collar crime".
 
TeleKat said:
That's one of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever hear regarding the death penalty.
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SMTA said:
And the death penalty for hyperbolic morons.
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Gaius46 said:
Really. So if I committed the crime of bribery while physically carrying a firearm - even one that I can legally carry - I should be put to death?
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I said I would consider it. I was thinking more along the lines of someone robbing a bank while armed or someone demanding money from me on the street while pointing a gun at me. My thought is, even if they don't shoot me, they very well might and they indicate they very well would. Now...if I were armed and I defended myself by killing the robber, then I have justifiably sentenced that robber to death and carried out the execution. The State should do no less in defense of its citizens.

I would be inclined to make an exception in cases like that bribery example.
 
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