In just world this would result in a prison sentence, banishment from stock exchanges, and revocation of their corporate charter. The fact that there is no capital punishment for companies, especially public ones, provides a moral hazard.
We've got a good handle on things like punishing criminals that rob someone at gunpoint. However, we struggle with seeing the CEO making short term loan to his company as theft from investors (the short term loan hid the fact that the company wasn't meeting its presumably publicly announced growth targets).
The issue is that white collar crime needs to show criminal intent. But, in this case the CEO didn't have criminal intent to steal, rather his intent was simply to boost his business (with the consequence of misleading investors).
As for intent, the law has centuries of precedent to incorporate into criminal statutes that affect corporate activities. It's just that the standards are artificially high and don't take into account the diffuse nature of the enterprise. But we have several decades of even that which could be applied, but isn't.
That's the second time today I see this, is this some kind of meme?
If corporations are persons, and they can commit felonies, why not give them punishments that are analogous to what you'd give a person who committed a felony?
Because corporate personhood is a legal fiction, and a corporate death penalty doesn't really hurt the people who a corporation stands in for very much, and hurts lots of other people a lot.
I know, that's why I included prison.