IMHO, the surviving husband/father should be furnished with a Louisville slugger with 16-penny nails pounded through it.
Posted on 10/05/2010 10:41:16 AM PDT by MissTed
DEVELOPING: A jury that heard eight days of gruesome testimony about a Connecticut family's night of horror has convicted a paroled burglar of killing a mother and her two daughters.
Steven Hayes was found guilty Tuesday of capital felony murder in the July 2007 deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela.
Jurors had begun deliberating Monday afternoon. The same jury must now decide whether Hayes should be executed or be sentenced to life in prison.
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like Ca., in Ct a death sentence is a Life sentence.
A no-brainer. Now we’ll find out if the state has the moral fortitude to carry out an execution (death sentence is all but certain).
Exactly why would we want to keep this man aaround? For what purpose? Once sentenced to death an automatic appeal process should begin with a time limit of one year. At the end of the one year if not overturned he should be executed.
Click on CT.
Does the name "Rolando Cruz" mean anything to you?
My suggested sentence:
1. Tatoo on the perp a caricature of Mohammed doing something vile - e.g., anything from Mohammed’s sorry history.
2. Send the perp to a country ruled by the “Religion of Pieces”.
3. Sit back and enjoy the results.
The nutmeg state is the last New England state, and one of the last in the Northeast to execute a convicted murderer. Micheal Ross died by lethal injection on May 13, 2005. Prior to that the last execution was carried out in 1960. Between 1639 and 2005 Connecticut has executed 127 persons, including one woman hanged for practicing witchcraft in 1647. (”suffer not a witch to live”. -Exodus 22:18)
This is one of the most horrible crime stories I’ve ever read. What those women went through . . . .
Walk him out behind the courthouse and give him a 1911 lobotomy.
At least we’ve been spared the obligatory speech from the criminal’s relatives “He was such a good boy...”
Connecticut is a death penalty state. I hope the judge sentences him to three death penalties pluse however many additional years he can for the arson to be served consecuetively.
What I don’t understand is what his animal tried to kill himself to avoid trial, the prison staff and doctors went to extraordinary lengths to save him.
I suggest they give him a short rope and look the other way for a couple of hours.
The mitigating factors comes during the sentencing phase.
The defense will blame the police for just standing around outside the home while the horrors were being committed.
IMHO, the surviving husband/father should be furnished with a Louisville slugger with 16-penny nails pounded through it.
One of the worst crimes I’ve seen in a long while. Shades of, In Cold Blood.
They intended to kill everyone in there - that the cops didn’t save the victims SHOULD be irrelevant to Stephen Hayes sentencing. He wanted the victims dead, and thanks to his efforts, they are.
The police didn’t start the fire, nor rob & rape defenseless women.
Hope the prosecutor keeps the jury focuses on the evil, not the incompetence/inaction of the police.
Let that come in a separate case - which from what I’ve heard, heads should be rolling in that PD.
Indeed, the Petit home invasion will go down in the annals of history as one of the worst. The behavior of the two perps can be described as nothing less than demonic.
From the picture they looked like such a beautiful family. Words fail me . . . .
It's not like there's any chance they'll be exonerated 20 years down the road by new DNA evidence. These two guys were literally caught red-handed, running out of the burning Petit home.
There guilt is without any question.
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