How To Punish BP

Your most creative, incisive, and sadistic ideas for how to make the company suffer.

By Daniel Gross
Posted Wednesday, June 2, 2010, at 3:56 PM ET

Our call for reader suggestions on how to punish BP and its executives for the oil spill hit a nerve. It inspired more than 120 comments and several dozen e-mailed suggestions, including a few in French from Slate.fr readers. (Merci!)

After combing through and categorizing the responses, my conclusion is that you are in a very angry and vindictive mood, eager to hit BP, its executives, and its shareholders where it hurts. There were multiple calls for shutting down the company, seizing its assets, and imposing various legal and extra-legal sanctions on its executives.