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You cant hold the passenger accountable for an accident

Well at the very least he ran away from the scene of the accident, leaving behind his injured girlfriend and four children who died. That's a crime even if she was the one driving.

Plus from that article it looks like not only are they illegals, but they also are charged with identity theft for stealing the ID's of a pair of legal immigrants. Despicable! I wonder if those honest immigrants got deported in the thieves place.

That's a crime even if she was the one driving.

Let's assume that she drove and he was the passenger. Is life or stringing him up as others have suggested in this thread the appropriate response? Were he not an illegal alien would people be reacting so strongly? Fleeing the scene of an accident is indeed a crime, does it call for the death penalty? Does crossing the border illegally call for the death penalty? Does forging a drivers license or SSN card call for the death penalty? What is the penalty to be for simply being the passenger in a car where the driver commits manslaughter(assuming he did not cause the accident somehow)? Is it death? I am looking at these as being seperate crimes with the punishment for each one needing to be handled individually.

What I am questioning overall is what I consider to be a mob mentality similar to what you might see in a Hollywood western where they lay siege to the jail demanding that the prisoner be dragged out and hung without a trial.