From time to time, I’ve written about the death of my friend David W. Miller, who was killed by a drunk driver almost three years ago, leaving his wife without a husband and his two children (ages 2 and 11 weeks at the time) without a father. David was popular among D.C. conservatives, who knew him for his work at the Heritage Foundation. In 2002, Michael Reck, the man responsible for David’s death as well as two more fatalities and the serious injury of a fourth person, was sentenced to ten years in prison. But he’s already up for parole. Members of David’s family are urging that this be denied: “We believe that serving less than one year of prison for each life he took fails to hold Reck accountable for the choices he knowingly made as an adult and a convicted drunk driver.” They have started an online petition. You do not have to have known David to sign the petition, but you do need to agree that a person who snuffed out three lives and altered many others through his own negligence should be held accountable for his actions.