Police Make Arrest in Fatal Crash that Claimed Five Lives »

October 10, 2009

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The police of Louisiana State have made an arrest following a horrific traffic crash that occurred last Friday morning, killing an entire family of five.

Dewayne Leggett, the suspect who killed the entire family was tested for BAC. It was found that he had a blood alcohol content around .18 percent, which is more than double the legal limit. After the warrant was signed, Leggett was arrested and taken into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison on amended charges of 5 counts vehicular homicide and DWI.

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“The Death Penalty for DUI” Is it Justified? »

August 17, 2009

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Yes, here I am talking about the death penalty. In a drunk driving case. Here in United States. For murder…… No, that is not for an involuntary manslaughter. Not for vehicular homicide. Murder. And that is a first-degree murder. Likewise someone has pointed a gun at someone and pulled the trigger. MADD has achieved so much success in their political pressure campaigns that they’ve actually gotten some courts and legislatures to create a new type of crime which is referred to as “DUI murder”.

Just hold on for a minute, you say. I thought if you want to kill a person then you had to intend to kill him or her. You have to "premeditate" and such kinds of other things, right? Well, yes and no. Of course, each state is a little different, but most od the states follow similar laws. And by those laws generally a homicide ("the killing of another human being") has been broken into different categories. The first one is excusable homicide that is such a homicide where, due to the self-defense or other justification, the death is not considered as a crime. Next one is "manslaughter" — basically, which is considered as a killing but that is not murder. Usually there are two kinds of manslaughter: voluntary and involuntary.

Voluntary manslaughter is sometimes referred to as a killing in the "heat of passion"; means that you lacked the time or ability to reflect on the act.

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