Deliberations resume in Connecticut home invasion case (Petit Family Murder)

I love the argument that “they will suffer more in prison”. If that’s true, why is their attorney fighting the death penalty? He is sworn to look out for his client’s best interest. By his logic, he should be fighting for less suffering, the death penalty.

They want to know about “mitigating factors???” What could mitigate it? Does being abused as a child, for instance, render his crime “understandable” and therefore excusable? Should the police be seeking out the bully that taunted him in 4th grade to punish the bully instead of the sadistic murderer?

That guy and the two in Connecticut are the kind that give crime a bad name.

The defense of the one on trial now in Connecticut seems to be a variation on the old "He is depraved on account of he was deprived." Apparently defendant Hayes claims that it was his parents divorce when he was 10 years old that caused him decades later to be a main participant in this rape murder, assault and robbery and arson.

Incredibly, reports are that the jury is substantially divided on the death penalty for him. Even if they order the death penalty, it will be by injection, if at all, and not by revving up Old Sparky as in more sensible times.

Then, if his execution is ordered, the newly elected Demonrat Governor Malloy (thanks to urban vote fraud in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven) who is a former minor prosecutor in New York is likely to commute death sentences because he opposes the tax saving method of dealing with first degree murderers. Who knows, maybe Malloy will commute the sentence to community service by way of working for Demonratic machine hacks in New Haven or Bridgeport or Hartford.

I heard the jurors sent a note asking what “unanimous” meant, so there must be at least one holdout. It is weird that it is taking more time to decide the punishment than it did to reach a verdict.

No doubt the WOMEN on the jury were swayed by the defense lawyer's insistence that Hayes serving life in prison and being "burdened with guilt" every day would be "worse than death". Remember the Menendez hung juries (6 men guilty, 6 women not guilty)?

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