Stacey Allen Graham, 33, was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison for killing two young teenage girls in a drunken-driving crash in the summer of 2013.
After an emotional sentencing hearing, in which the victims' families testified, Superior Court Judge Kevin Saxby said he believed the sentence he pronounced was the longest in Alaska's history for "conduct of this type." He imposed two consecutive 20-year sentences, each with four years suspended, for the two counts of second-degree murder to which Graham had earlier pleaded guilty.
The crimes date back to a Friday evening in August 2013 when Graham sped in his Toyota Tacoma pickup after bouts of heavy drinking at a company golf tournament and afterward at a friend's house. His blood-alcohol level was more than three times the legal limit, according to court documents.