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  • Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion

    11/08/2010 9:06:26 AM PST · by Racehorse · 159 replies · 1+ views
    ABC News ^ | 8 November 2010 | Emily Friedman and Anne-Marie Dorning
    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...
  • Restorative Capital Punishment

    10/30/2007 5:27:32 AM PDT · by theothercheek · 37 replies · 114+ views
    In July Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, were sexually abused and brutally murdered by parolees Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes, who now face the death penalty. The Hawke-Petit family – including husband and father William, who survived the attack – were members of the United Methodist Church in Cheshire, CT, a liberal activist church "where parishioners take to the pulpit to discuss poverty in El Salvador and refugees living in Meriden," reports The New York Times. The church has been led by three pastors in a row who oppose capital punishment in favor of "restorative...