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  2. Judicial dissolution - Wikipedia

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    Judicial dissolution, informally called the corporate death penalty, is a legal procedure in which a corporation is forced to dissolve or cease to exist. Dissolution is the revocation of a corporation's charter for significant harm to society. [ 2 ]

  3. Corporate death penalty - Wikipedia

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  4. Corporate crime - Wikipedia

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    For the worst corporate crimes, corporations may face judicial dissolution, sometimes called the "corporate death penalty", which is a legal procedure in which a corporation is forced to dissolve or cease to exist. Some negative behaviours by corporations may not actually be criminal; laws vary between jurisdictions.

  5. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    The methodical removal of portions of the body over an extended period of time, usually with a knife, eventually resulting in death. Sometimes known as "death by a thousand cuts". Pendulum. [8] A machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time (of disputed historicity). Starvation/Dehydration ...

  6. Corporate manslaughter - Wikipedia

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    Corporate manslaughter is a crime in several jurisdictions, including England and Wales and Hong Kong. [1] It enables a corporation to be punished and censured for culpable conduct that leads to a person's death.

  7. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

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    The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (c. 19) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that seeks to broaden the law on corporate manslaughter in the United Kingdom. The Act created a new offence respectively named corporate manslaughter in England and Wales and Northern Ireland , and corporate homicide in Scotland .

  8. Capital punishment by country - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty for murder; instigating a minor's or a mentally ill's suicide; treason; terrorism; a second conviction for drug trafficking; aircraft hijacking; aggravated robbery; espionage; kidnapping; being a party to a criminal conspiracy to commit a capital offence; attempted murder by those sentenced to life imprisonment if the attempt ...

  9. Capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Death penalty opponents regard the death penalty as inhumane [206] and criticize it for its irreversibility. [207] They argue also that capital punishment lacks deterrent effect, [208] [209] [210] or has a brutalization effect, [211] [212] discriminates against minorities and the poor, and that it encourages a "culture of violence". [213]