Ex-exec deserved harsh term in salmonella case: Your Say

A former executive of Peanut Corp. of America was sentenced to 28 years in prison Monday for his role in a salmonella outbreak linked to nine deaths. Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

What a ghastly crime! For the executive and his brother to knowingly send out contaminated food and falsify records is reprehensible. They both deserved life sentences for the deaths they caused.

— Bud Simpson

The judge needed to make an example of Stewart Parnell, the former executive, to show that if you run a dirty factory that produces food that kills people, you are going to pay. This should serve as a warning to all others who work in the food-manufacturing industry. Clean up!

— Martin Kelly

Is there a creative way to use those convicted in this case to do something constructive and keep the issues of fraud, misconduct and the consequences in the limelight? Just sending them to jail ends the matter.

— James G Timourian

Government inspectors can’t protect us from people who are willing to lie and falsify records. However, government traced the source and arrested the guilty, so the system worked.

— Rick Curtis

The next person who values profits over public safety needs to be deterred from doing this. Those responsible deserved to be severely punished.

— Bradford Talamon

What about the General Motors executives who just got off with a fine? They were responsible for the deaths of more than 120 people.

— Tony Caravan