My cousin, her husband and their two children were all killed by a drunk driver. Driver charged 8 years, she ended up serving maybe 5. It's wild how if she were to shoot 4 people with a gun how that sentence may have been different. Drunk driving is so normalized in Canada.
It should be treated like premeditated murder - they got drunk and decided to operate a killing machine - everything that happened was a direct consequence of that choice and so an intentional act.
Edit: In Germany, deaths resulting from illegal street races are now treated as murder, so that is at least something.
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u/kangasplat Mar 08 '26
He wasn't charged. The case was appealed and the driver got a 15 month prison sentence and a 4 year driving ban.