In the U.S. corporations are considered a "person" in law, and that they have the same rights as citizens. this is the reason many corporations get away with crimes such as embezzlement and murder. Who is to blame in these corporations? Seeing as authorities cannot blame the entire corporation for the crime they must turn to the corporate executives to suffer the consequences. Though there is still a chance that the workers are committing these crimes, the majority of the crimes are done by executives or people in high power. They are done by this wealthy group because they are generally the ones that go unsuspected, or can carry out the crimes without much afterthought by the corporation.
So the answer? Yes corporations can commit murder
New York, Warner Lambert Company and several of its officials were indicted for second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after a 1976 explosion in the company's gum-making plant killed six workers. The prosecution alleged that the blast could be traced to the failure of officials to install an adequate exhaust system. Although it did not disallow the possibility of such a prosecution under different circumstances, an appellate court dismissed the indictment, stating that the actual cause of the explosion had been unforeseeable. Even though alot of these crimes are put to the side as "accidents" or "unforseeable" they are still crimes and someone had to contribute to it in someway. Seeing as the corporation is considered a "person" and have the same rights as citizens then it should be tried in the same way another murder would be.
most corporation crimes are done for no other reason but money, money, and power. the amount that a corporation or even one man staring a corporate crime can get away with is huge. I mean millions if not billions huge. but if they get busted with that amount of heat and are brought to court with the same rights as a human picture the lock up years.
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