I agree that is odd.
Killing some one while driving drunk is stupid, negligent and thoughtless.
But it is not intentional homicide.
Punishment should take in to account whether the crime is intentional.
It should. But most drunks who get behind the wheel know they're drunk, it is intentional. Get's messy though.
If I can find a link from a local paper, I'll post it, but I doubt I will.
A year or so I read of an incident where an individual with multiple DUIs and a suspended license was driving on a state highway, in Wisconsin.
Two unrelated witness' to the accident. He wasn't speeding, he had been drinking though possibly not legally drund, in the .06 to .1 area.
A car driven by a teenager ran a stop sign, he hit the car, one of the two or three teens in the car died. The teen driver wasn't high, just careless.
He was charged with manslaughter. I don't know how the case turned out. If he wasn't driving illegally, or the teen stopped at a stop sign, a life would have been saved.
He had no license, he should never have been behind the wheel.
The kid should never have died.
Manslaughter?
Sometimes I'm glad I'm not a Judge.