Why isn't a person's life worth this much?

Enron's Skilling jailed for 24yrs

From correspondents in Houston

October 24, 2006 07:06am
Article from: Agence France-Presse

FORMER Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling was sentenced today to more than 24 years in prison for massive fraud and conspiracy in one of the biggest corporate scandals in US history.

"Crimes of this magnitude deserve severe punishment," Judge Sim Lake said when handing down the 292-month sentence.

Skilling, 52, who had faced a maximum of 185 years in jail, told the court he planned to appeal his conviction stemming from the 2001 collapse of the Houston-based energy giant under a mountain of shady deals.

"I am innocent of these charges," Skilling told the court.

So why is a bit of money more important than people's lives????? In contrast a company like Jame's Hardie can kill millions of people over the years with full knowledge that this would happen and get off scott free????? In fact they get off that lightly for killing people their shares increase significantly.

No someone needs to get the priorities right and corporations that kill for profits should have their directors charged with industrial murder.

But then in this sick world of capatilism it's ok to kill for profits as James Hardie has done but it's not alright to take a bit of money.

Unreal
Daniel