The strictest charge in New York for a drunk driver that kills someone is currently manslaughter, but family members of victims and an Assembly candidate from Yonkers is hoping that will change.

Former Republican state Assemblyman Mike Spano is running for the 93rd Assembly seat he once held. Spano is joining forces with families who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers. Dianna Bogdanowicz believes the woman who was driving drunk and rear-ended her parents? car in 2002, killing her father, should've spent more time in jail. Karen Masterson had a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit. She was sentenced to three to seven years and was released after two years.

Spano wants drunk drivers to instead be charged with murder in the second degree with depraved indifference to life. It is a proposal he hopes to see through if he beats his Democratic opponent, Shelley Mayer, in November.