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Can anyone verify that there are cases of criminal negligence where engineers have been imprisoned as a penalty?


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...




No need. We can use the example of medical negligence, if your rather.




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