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The driver is certainly an alcoholic. Alcoholics will do amazing things while in a blackout and have no memory of doing them afterwards. The friend was partially responsible for his own demise since he got into a car with a drunk driver after having imbibed so much himself that he could no longer make decent judgements about such things.
Everyone thinks they're bullet proof when they're 21. Add enough 80 proof whiskey to that mindset, and you have someone who has left rational thought far behind. I pity everyone involved. The driver should definately do a stretch in a cell, but doesn't deserve the death penalty. He didn't deliberately kill his friend and his friend went willingly in the car with him. The driver will have to spend the rest of his life with the knowledge of what he did. The thought of THAT punishment makes me shudder. People take their OWN lives over stuff like that.
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