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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P.S. I have it on good authority that CT legislators are close to repealing the death penalty. Outgoing Republican Governor Jodi Rell vetoed the repeal, but Malloy is getting in January and we know Democrats will be bringing it up again. If CT repeals the death penalty next year, then is that retroactive to the Hayes case like it would be if a court had overturned the death sentence? I honestly don’t know. Any lawyers around?
These Animals that did this crime don’t deserve the swift mercy of Lethal Injection..or Gas Chamber.....
I hope some of the other prisoners take it into their own hands, the guards look the other way, and the bastard is tied to his bed and burned alive.
The verdict shouldn’t have taken more than two minutes of deliberations.
We should wash our hands of this filth. Will never happen but I would contract out with a Mexican drug gang. Send these two killers down to Mexico where they get fed drugs, get anally raped and beaten for a few days then get set on fire.
Read this: Juror speaks out as Conn. family's killer gets death penalty
"I'm 77, and I haven't cried in a long, long time. But seeing this man, what he went through -- just close your eyes and imagine you're a dad and you come home and your wife and daughters are gone. How would you respond?" Gram told The Post from his home last night."It is just so horrific. It doesn't fit any caliber or ruler. There is no dimension you can put to it.
"This is the condition where the death penalty was meant to be applied.
Just reading that the father is now brain damaged from the assault. I did see a picture of the injuries to his head.
This morning when the 6am news came on WABC radio the verdict was mentioned and IMUS who usually gets two minutes before I turn off the radio said.
That’s why people have to have guns. He went on to say people most likely need more than one gun in the home and preferably a 12 gauge shot gun too.
I understand your feelings. The truth, however, is that there will never be any kind of true justice on earth - not for something as horrific as this. Only God will be able to do that and maybe this man may repent of his sins. Only God knows.
This Connecticut. They haven’t put anyone to death in over half a century. Hayes will die of old age. Too bad. I feel like those who are found guilty of murder should die the same way as their victims. Give me the job application.
Looking at the only man in the State who has been on death row since 1960, I think they've long since eliminated it. Is it cruel to believe all those sentenced should be given just one year to appeal thereby saving taxpayers $$$ instead of waiting for years and years to meet their maker?
He’ll spend decades in prison, appeal after appeal, and millions of our dollars.
Evil always wins.
If as his present Smuck attorney says, he wants to die and is happy with the verdict then why is his Smuck attorney appealing?
Who is footing the bill for his Smuck attorney? The taxpayer!
Why if perp wants to take the needle, cant he fire this Smuck attorney and get one who will speed-up the ride to Hell?
I wish I had a link?
In the 1970s in Florida some law enforcement personnel had Tee Shirts made up with a picture of a bleacher and the words
“ FLORIDA NEEDS ELECTRIC BLEACHERS”.
They caught hell for it and had to cease and desist. But they made their point executions took too long.
I would like to see that idea come back.
What is Rick Scott’s thoughts on this?
Yes some people are just defective. If they wanted to make their peace with Jesus, they had ample opportunity to stop what they did. Just fry em.
Our constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment. As much as our human nature wants to dispense “an eye for an eye” to these monsters, we must follow the law.
Justice means that these two horrible persons are permanently banned from society. And earth.
How would that be cruel and unusual punishment? Are you saying that prisons have an affirmative duty to protect inmates from prison violence?
“How would that be cruel and unusual punishment? Are you saying that prisons have an affirmative duty to protect inmates from prison violence?”
Yes. The 8th Amendment guarantees that RIGHT...
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
That refers to cruel and unusual punishment by the government. I hardly think refusing to kowtow to the demand of a prisoner that he be placed in administrative segregation is cruel and unusual punishment.
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