I’m sure I will need my flame-proof underwear for my thoughts on this... but oh well:
I don’t care if this murderer was 17 or 70.... He made the decision to drive, to get drunk and drive, and now has blood on his hands just as sure as if he had taken a knife and slit the victim’s throats.
It is past time to end the namby-pamby treatment of drunk drivers who injure or kill others. I’m sick of “negligible homicide” or “vehicular homicide”. Drunk drivers who kill - premeditated their crime which led to the death of others.
If someone plans out a bank robbery, with no thought or intention of ever actually hurting someone... but the day of the planned crime rolls around, and while in the bank - panics and shoots someone, killing them... that person still can face the death penalty in some states. Even though the perp didn’t have any plans of killing someone.
I’m sure the drunk “Juvenile” in this case didn’t “plan” to kill someone... but the danger is ALWAYS there when one chooses to drink and drive.
Indeed. There is never any excuse to engage in DUI under any circumstances. This is definitely one crime that should merit a death sentence if a DUI driver kills someone else.
How many other stories do we hear about involving repeat DUI offenders who continue to willfully cause crashes and kill other people by repeatedly getting behind the wheel when they are in no position to drive? There really should be some sort of 3-strikes (or less) policy for repeat DUI offenders.
Virginia’s generally pretty tough with law enforcement. This fool kid is going to spend a long, quality time in jail, but won’t get the death penalty. His victims, on the other hand, did.
I’ve been on that road several times. It’s an awful road, and easy to take a wrong turn or exit, but I can’t imagine how he got on it going the wrong way.
As far as I’m concerned he’s a murderer. He should spend the rest of his life in prison.
No flames from me. I’ll even go out a little further than you on my limb and speculate that (guessing from the names) the two dead were muslims and they were killed in an evil twist of fate by the forbidden use of alcohol, a use they themselves were innocent of.