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wwweston
on April 23, 2015
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“Cheating teachers go to jail. Cheating Wall Stree...
Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?
ridgeguy
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Don't know if this was ever enforced, but in the Code of Hammurabi (~1754 BC), Sections 229 and 230 prescribed capital punishment in the event a builder constructed a house, which then fell and killed someone.
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html#Ham...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabiah_bridge_collapse
is one in Israel.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaste...
another Israeli example.
harperlee
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No need. We can use the example of medical negligence, if your rather.
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