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Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
ABC News ^
| 8 November 2010
| Emily Friedman and Anne-Marie Dorning
Posted on 11/08/2010 9:06:26 AM PST by Racehorse
Steven Hayes was sentenced to death by a Connecticut jury today for his role in the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.
The verdict came halfway through day four of deliberation for the jury that spend the whole weekend holed up in a New Haven courtroom discussing the fate of Hayes, 47.
Hayes is convicted of raping and choking Hawke-Petit to death, while accused accomplice Joshua Komisarjevsky is accused of sexually assaulting 11-year-old Michaela Petit. Michaela and her older sister Hayley, 17, died after they were tied to their beds and the house was set on fire.
The jury had struggled several times during deliberation to agree on a sentence for Hayes. On the first day of delibrations the jurors sent a note to Judge Jon Blue asking, "What does it mean to unanimously find the existence of a statutory mitigating factor?"
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: connecticut; deathpenalty; hawkepetit; homeinvasion; murder; newhaven; petit; rape
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Update via Fox News: Jury recommended death on all six counts. Fry em . . . same as he did to this family.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:06:31 AM PST
by
Racehorse
To: Racehorse
They might get around to killing him by 2030.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:07:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers -Thanks for a great season.)
To: Racehorse
couldn’t have happened to a nicer schmuck.
too bad they can’t reciprocate. i’d pay money to bring marshmallows...
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:07:47 AM PST
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Racehorse
It took them four days? Four minutes would have sufficed for me. Heard on Fox that some of the jurors were crying—hope not for him!
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:08:47 AM PST
by
MizSterious
("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
To: Racehorse
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:08:50 AM PST
by
JewishRighter
( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
To: Racehorse
This sounds like the right verdict, especially if they kill him by tying him to a bed and setting it on fire.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:08:50 AM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: Racehorse
I only regret its going to take 20 yrs, and that we can’t use cruel and unusual methods of execution.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:08:55 AM PST
by
krogers58
To: Racehorse
Too quick, too clean, too good for him.
To: Racehorse
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:09:12 AM PST
by
jimbo123
To: dfwgator
In this case, that’s perfect. It’s an unattractive trait, but I enjoy knowing that prison justice is meted out to such as him. And may he receive much of it.
To: Racehorse
Excellent! This was he gets life imprisonment and execution!
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:09:42 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: Racehorse
One of the worst murders I have ever read about. I will never understand those who are not against the death penalty.
To: MizSterious
Hiya Miz....I wouldn’t have had to leave the jury box..!
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:10:42 AM PST
by
mystery-ak
(gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Racehorse
Good riddance to this vicious, heinous, pathetic excuse for a man.
Enjoy an eternity in hell, scumbag.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:10:51 AM PST
by
mojito
To: Racehorse
Well, so much for my use of a negative... I will never understand those AGAINST the death penalty, which I think is merited in many cases. Just want to clarify that one.
To: Racehorse
Speed up the process for all on death row, kill him.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:11:06 AM PST
by
Karliner
(Now this is not the end. .... But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning, Churchill 1942)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
His dance card will be full in the Pen.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:11:25 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Texas Rangers -Thanks for a great season.)
To: Racehorse
Now to see if the Judge holds and imposes the decision of the Jury or reduces it to Life without parole.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:12:08 AM PST
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
To: Racehorse
The note gave an example in which two jurors indicated that they saw no mitigating circumstances and Hayes should be to put to death.
Good for those two!!!
(But it also means ten jurors only wanted to give him life.)
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:12:20 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: MizSterious
Heard on Fox that some of the jurors were crying—hope not for him!This is The Peoples Republic of CT. Of course they were crying for him.
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posted on
11/08/2010 9:12:35 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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