BOSTON (AP) — A nearly 200-year-old Massachusetts statute outlining the penalties for corporate manslaughter is being thrust into the spotlight again as lawmakers on Beacon Hill and in Congress wrestle with the fallout from a deadly meningitis outbreak linked to a local compounding pharmacy.

While the investigation into the Framingham-based New England Compounding Center is still ongoing and no charges have been brought, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says the case helps illustrate the need to change the manslaughter law, which hasn’t been updated since it was first signed into law by former Gov. John Brooks on February 19, 1819.