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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?"

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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.
1 posted on 11/08/2010 9:06:31 AM PST by Racehorse
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To: Racehorse

They might get around to killing him by 2030.


2 posted on 11/08/2010 9:07:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Texas Rangers -Thanks for a great season.)
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To: Racehorse

couldn’t have happened to a nicer schmuck.

too bad they can’t reciprocate. i’d pay money to bring marshmallows...


3 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)
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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!


4 posted on 11/08/2010 9:08:47 AM PST by MizSterious ("Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK)
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To: Racehorse

Applause GIF here.


5 posted on 11/08/2010 9:08:50 AM PST by JewishRighter ( Multiculturalism is killing us.)
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To: Racehorse

This sounds like the right verdict, especially if they kill him by tying him to a bed and setting it on fire.


6 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.)
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To: Racehorse

I only regret its going to take 20 yrs, and that we can’t use cruel and unusual methods of execution.


7 posted on 11/08/2010 9:08:55 AM PST by krogers58
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To: Racehorse

Too quick, too clean, too good for him.


8 posted on 11/08/2010 9:08:55 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: Racehorse

Good.


9 posted on 11/08/2010 9:09:12 AM PST by jimbo123
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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.


10 posted on 11/08/2010 9:09:42 AM PST by definitelynotaliberal
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To: Racehorse
Excellent! This was he gets life imprisonment and execution!
11 posted on 11/08/2010 9:09:42 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Racehorse

One of the worst murders I have ever read about. I will never understand those who are not against the death penalty.


12 posted on 11/08/2010 9:09:55 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: MizSterious

Hiya Miz....I wouldn’t have had to leave the jury box..!


13 posted on 11/08/2010 9:10:42 AM PST by mystery-ak (gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Racehorse

Good riddance to this vicious, heinous, pathetic excuse for a man.

Enjoy an eternity in hell, scumbag.


14 posted on 11/08/2010 9:10:51 AM PST by mojito
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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.


15 posted on 11/08/2010 9:10:58 AM PST by Paved Paradise
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To: Racehorse

Speed up the process for all on death row, kill him.


16 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)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

His dance card will be full in the Pen.


17 posted on 11/08/2010 9:11:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Texas Rangers -Thanks for a great season.)
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To: Racehorse

Now to see if the Judge holds and imposes the decision of the Jury or reduces it to Life without parole.


18 posted on 11/08/2010 9:12:08 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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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.)
19 posted on 11/08/2010 9:12:20 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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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.

20 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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