What's next on DUI? Death penalty?

Regarding a 30-day mandatory jail time for people convicted of driving under the influence and those people who are saying it isn't enough time:

Why should we treat drunk drivers that haven't killed someone as if they have?

If you kill someone while driving drunk, then you should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and spend a lot of time in prison. If you were just driving drunk, why should your life get completely screwed over for a mistake?

I got a DUI a year ago in Seattle. When the judge found out I was from Arizona, he told me "to be lucky I got my DUI there rather than in Arizona."

Not all drunk drivers are alcoholics. In Seattle, they send you to evaluators to determine whether or not you are an alcoholic in need of treatment.

If you are not deemed an alcoholic, you are required to attend two eight-hour alcohol classes. If you are deemed an alcoholic, you have to go to Alcoholics Anonymous for however long they recommend.

After spending $6,000 on that DUI, I have not driven drunk.

You don't have to completely mess up someone's life over to get him or her to stop driving drunk. People just jump all over any new legislation that makes tougher laws on DUIs, no matter how tough the laws are.

What? Are we going to have life sentences and the death penalty for DUIs pretty soon? - LF, Scottsdale

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