Four sentenced to death over $2.6bn Iran bank fraud

I suppose that will always be the case. Our system doesn't demand absolute proof for a conviction.

Those Iranians will be hanged as far as I know and they don't believe in making it humane. They often just hoist them with cranes and let them strangle.

I'd be satisfied in this country if we just prosecuted and locked up our white collar criminals. These days, hanging some of them doesn't seem like such a bad idea though.

Let them think about it for a long, long time.

Appeals can eat up tens of millions.

Additionally, when they find out someone is actually innocent, it's never too late.

They just hang 'em high.

Stoning to death for having a romantic relationship outside a marriage sounds kind of outdated also

The world is changing faster than our establishment and culture can handle it. Really, feels like the revolution is happening and isn't being recognized for the thing it is (that's a good thing, we will be able to go around them while they are not paying attention)

in this country. They include sudden and fatal heart attacks, serious illness, suicide and depression well above the norm, the loss of any assets, and nearly guaranteed decades of poverty for increasing numbers of people in the United States. All this because banks borrowed money and wound up leveraging not just debt, but the lives of the taxpayers. And we subsidize that madness. Still.

They may not be as obvious as a person with a shotgun, but they have brought (and continue to wreak) horrendous and nearly unimaginable tragedy and death to millions of people both here and abroad, so in sheer numbers their actions far outweigh any group of criminals I can think of. As a part of the group that is raking in most of the wealth in this country, this also precludes opportunity, such as work or enough pay for health care or to save for retirement for millions of others.

In that context, bankers execute people for their property every day in foreclosure proceedings. The homeowners just don't fall down right away, they have to suffer for a few years first.

That's barbaric.

preferably administered at the point where it does the most good. With thoughtfulness and sound aim as required. That also includes some people who have been incarcerated, but who still present on ongoing threat to others if we cannot or will not contain them.

Other than that sliver of safety, we get nothing from it, so I don't support the death penalty in most other contexts. Certainly not for some supposed retribution for murder or theft.

But the bankers aren't just committing theft. They are killing people. It takes longer, so people can rationalize away the connection, But they have been responsible for more tragedy and pain than any Al Qaeda member or Timothy McVeigh could dream of. The terrorists get all the press cause it's easy to show on a news segment, but they are pikers compared to the wealthy in their creative destruction.

Unfortunately, in the case of bankers and the wealthy, so simple a solution as the death penalty is inadequate. It would just leave an empty chair. Others, greedy and venal, would move into it, just like feral cats move into a vacated space when one of their brethren gets eaten or killed.

I don't support it because the death penalty is no solution to that problem. But their actions are no less morally reprehensible and probably more harmful to a greater number of people than the person who merely murders a few, a couple hundred, or a few thousand people.

So in the world we live in I can certainly see how their schemes could rise to the level of murder or worse, and why others would want to apply the same penalties that result in the death penalty.

...who were harmed?

Executing them accomplishes nothing. It's just blood lust.

is to seize all their assets (sell off their house and all other property as well) to cover the loses and add a special punitive tax to any income they get from a future job to help pay back what they've stolen.

If it leaves them living the rest of their lives in poverty . .. well maybe that's something for the next batch of scammers to consider.

Maybe the US should consider rendition to Iran of criminal bankers.

DUzy

This should be a headline story in the NYT!

Hey Wall Street Banksters...think about it.

But I'm sure, just to be on the safe side, they ( Bankers ) will orchestrate some kind of threat ( a bomb at the Olympics? ) to get even us Dems begging to invade Iran.

Stealing is apparently illegal there.

... huh....