The state shouldn’t be in the business of killing people.
$12 billion dollars is the equivalent of the 1.3 million years of work in vietnam. that’s the livelihoods of more than 34000 people, stolen to profit one person.
Killing them won’t change that.
seizing their assets will
I’m ok with this.
I’m not. Imprison her for life, but the death penalty is never acceptable as long as there’s even the slightest chance of a false conviction. As long as “the system” can get it wrong, it should not be allowed to carry out irreversible punishments.
Innocent people dying of old age in prison is also irreversible and way fucking crueler.
i mean… abolish prisons too? Yes… I think yess :)
Yes but why just when the fate of billionaires is on the line?
I just support prison abolition in general, especially here in the US where I am. The shear number of poor, poc, indigenous, and mentally ill people who get funneled into the prison system here is a travesty and just pointless cruelty. TBH i dont give a fuck about one billionaire as long as the money is taken back and she loses all her power. Though I also do not support the death penalty so this headline doesn’t make me feel super comfortable.
You’re not wrong, but at least there’s a chance that they’ll be released, and with therapy they might even have a normal life again some day. If you kill someone, they’re dead. Nothing you can do about it beyond maybe putting an “Oops, our bad, sorry about that” plaque on their headstone.
I will also say that prisons should not be cruel. The role of prisons should be rehabilitation, protection of society from those who can’t be rehabilitated, and lastly (and for once actually least importantly) punishment.
The rehabilitation line is a lie people tell themselves to feel better about being ok with extreme cruelty
there are other countries who have actually worked successfully at rehabilitation rather than the US-based system of ‘revenge as justice’.
lumping everyone in line with the revenge types is an ignorant, immature stance.
Nah. Figures lie and liars figure. These other countries are generally homogenous with very very low poverty
According to the article, she siphoned off a lot of dong.
I feel like this is an important thing.
Top global firms, such as Ernst & Young and KPMG, did not flag concerns about the bank in their audits, public documents show.
Finally, some good news!
We seem to like to draw a line between crimes where the damages caused are visible from those where the damages caused are less visible, but its undoubtable that the crimes of the wealthy, so called white collar crimes, cause just as real material pain and suffering and societal damage.
If anything, the consequences of a crime should be scaled by your wealth and privileged in a society, because you really have no excuse for not following the law. Earn above a million dollars a year? Well a parking ticket costs you 10s of thousands of dollars? Earn above a billion a year and park outside the lines? Gallows.
