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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What a monster...
what a bunch of numbnuts took so long
In Florida we have many on Death Row since the 70’s, some of whom committed their crimes in the 60’s. In our state, 20 years would be the Express Lane.
The death sentence is meaningless if the perp stays alive in jail for 15-25 years after sentencing.
The law should read that upon sentence to death an immediate appeal process to last no longer then 1 year is strated and when the appropriate appeals if any are done the execution is carried out within one week.
I think you mean those who ARE against the death penalty. As one of those, I’m against the death penalty on religious grounds - I don’t believe that Jesus would have anyone executed. Stick him in a cage where he can’t harm anyone else and have him wave goodbye to life. Maybe he’ll accept the grace of God and be forgiven in the next life. Would I be able to say the same if it was one of my family? No idea.
Big Deal. He’ll die of old age in a comfy cell while his court-appointed lawyers make millions of taxpayer dollars.
He ought to go the same way he killed them!
RE: Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
If the history of the Death Penalty in the Blue States for the past 40 years is any indicator, the following will happen :
* Some liberal academic will find a way to write a book casting doubt on Hayes’ guilt.
* His scheduled execution will be postponed and his case reviewed till Kingdom come.
Most of you will probably die first before Hayes does.
* Eventually, students will make Hayes a cause celebre’ and print his face on T-shirts (on second thought, scrap that idea, he’s a white guy, only blacks and minorities get that treatment).
I doubt anyone was weeping for this animal but for they way they tortured these girls.
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.
Too bad he will get a nice lethal injection instead of an eye for an eye sentence.
Thank-you for your posting.
Perhaps someone in prison will do him the honors. I would have to think there are people in there that don't like scum that rape and murder 11 year old girls.
I dunno. It wouldn't have taken me a nanosecond to vote for the death penalty, but after reviewing the evidence and arguing with nitwits for four days, I might be emotionally drained and brought to tears.
Connecticut is the last New England state to have actually executed anyone, sometime around 2005. Those morons in New Hampshire are not eligible for the death penalty because they only killed a mother and mained her eleven year old daughter asleep in their beds and not an armed police officer. (New Hampshire has one guy on death row for killing a cop, but I bet I (currently 60) die before him.)
Too bad the ACLU will be suing to save this vile POS. These people deserve one appeal and then get the needle the next day. You wanna cut deficits? Kill all the thugs on death row you'll save a lot of money that way.
Judge Roy Bean style, trial in the morning and hanging that very afternoon.
Not meaning to pick on you, but your statement reminds me of the old joke; Ask a girl to go to bed with you for a million dollars and she says yes, we'll what about fifty? She replies what kind of girl do you think I am? The reply is "We've already determined that, we're just haggling over the price".
I understand the issue of WWJD because he's a friend of mine as well.
That said, I believe that some people give up their rights to breathe by their own actions. I say Hang 'em from a large tree and how's tomorrow afternoon?
This is an easy one...
Actually, a full review is what you want. This guy can’t appeal on the grounds the jury didn’t weigh the particulars when sentencing him.
Four days is just fine with me. As long as the sentencing came down right, it’s great.
Now, if we can just get the sentence implemented in less than thirty years...
Keystone Cops X 1000000000.
It probably took them that long to calm each other down.
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