Corporation crime

Q: Can Corporations Commit Murder.
Q: If a corporation is considered as a person in law (as it is in the US) who can be held liable (responsible) if a corporation kills people.

A: Yes! In the states a corporation is considered to be a person, so they have all the same rights and responsibilities and can be held responsible if someone at their work dies. If someone was to die because of poor working conditions, people would immediately look to the CEO, but it can any ones actions that led to the death of that worker. The employer has a responsibility towards the worker, for example if a supervisor ignores poor working conditions and a worker dies, the supervisor will be at fault but also the person that hired them would be in more trouble. So it’s not really the corporation that kills the person it’s the people who work within the corporation. A corporation has laws stating safety measures which are to be met in order to ensure the safety of employees. And if a corporation deliberately disobeys those laws and rules. The public may hold them accountable for their actions and can charge them with murder.
For example in New York, Warner Lambert Company and several of its officials were indicted for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a 1976 explosion in the company's gum-making plant killed six workers. The prosecution alleged that the blast could be traced to the failure of officials to install an adequate exhaust system. So this was the corporations fault since they did not keep up their safety measures. Even though it probably wouldn’t hold up in court, because corporations have a sneaky way of wiggling out of things they are to blame. There’s always the way of arguing the ‘you are your own person thing” and how no one can make you do anything and how entering a dangerous mine is your fault because your putting yourself at that risk. However its also the corporations fault for not stopping you from going into a dangerous mine.