[Diddle E. Squat]

20 years on average for a murder 24 years for financial fraud ... sounds to me like there was more than just a little bit of emotion in the sentencing.

Or a sentence reflecting a logical accounting of the (literally) thousands of persons who lost most of their savings as a result of Enron's illegalities.

Perhaps murderers should spend more time in jail, instead of watering down the penalty for committing a host of illegalities and frauds.

[wagglebee]

I agree, the problem is that murderers are even released at all, not that people who defraud thousands of their life savings are given 24 years.

[taxcontrol]

Skilling's indictment was for:

10 counts of insider trading;
15 counts of securities fraud;
4 counts of wire fraud;
6 counts of making false statements to auditors,
and one count of conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud.

[RGSpincich]

Or a sentence reflecting a logical accounting of the (literally) thousands of persons who lost most of their savings as a result of Enron's illegalities.

Yep, thousands of families affected. I don't know of any serial killers that received less than life after being convicted.

[USMA '71]

Or a sentence reflecting a logical accounting of the (literally) thousands of persons who lost most of their savings as a result of Enron's illegalities.

Skilling did wrong and should be punished. However, one should never invest his life savings in the same company that provides his pay check. You could say that greed caused those people to lose their savings and not be totally wrong.