# Has a corporation ever killed someone?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 29, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270 "2013-03-29T16:24:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/21 "2013-04-09T04:35:30Z")

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[http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/06/france.concorde.trial/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/06/france.concorde.trial/index.html) Apparently Continental Airlines was found guilty of killing 113 people in France.

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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/22 "2013-04-09T12:28:24Z")

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Blackwater.

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**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/23 "2013-04-09T13:39:24Z")

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> [@D-bear](#):
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> [http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/06/france.concorde.trial/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/12/06/france.concorde.trial/index.html) Apparently Continental Airlines was found guilty of killing 113 people in France.

Accidentally, not intentionally.  
Powers &8^]

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/24 "2013-04-09T16:22:02Z")

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American Home Products (later Wyeth) falsified reports to the FDA on fen-phen. As a result, the drug stayed on the market longer than it should have and more people died from it.

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**Author:** ![D-bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@D-bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D-bear)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/25 "2013-04-11T04:42:22Z")

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> [@Powers](#):
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> Accidentally, not intentionally.  
> Powers &8^]

Oops, missed that distinction in the OP. So sorry.

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**Author:** ![Powers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Powers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Powers)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-a-corporation-ever-killed-someone/654270/26 "2013-04-12T17:33:52Z")

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> [@Clothahump](#):
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> American Home Products (later Wyeth) falsified reports to the FDA on fen-phen. As a result, the drug stayed on the market longer than it should have and more people died from it.

This is criminal negligence, or perjury, but it’s not intentional homicide.  
Powers &8^]

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