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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The main reason against it is the cost in the appeals process.
It is actually cheaper for the state of CT to keep this piece of SH*T in jail for the rest of his life than to pay for the appeals for the next 15+ years.
The other reason is that jurys make mistakes. They are not perfect. Innocent people do go to jail. Not as much now that we have DNA evidence. Guilty people also go free(remember OJ).
Good
Some day the abortion thing flips and then we get to hold trials, and executions, for its proponents.
In the aftermath of these murders Governor Rell vetoed a bill that would have abolished the death penalty.
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night...It must be quite sobering to realize that you have pushed the envelope so far that the human race has scraped you off its shoe.
I’m sure I would never be called anyway, but I would have to be in a great deal of prayer. It’s something I would not take lightly. I’m sure most people don’t. I can’t even imagine sitting in on all of the horrendous evidence for this trial. I can’t imagine sleeping at night.
I did correct myself. You are right about what I meant. I think you brought up a good point. I don’t think you would feel the same if this were your family. I have read some pretty horrible cases. If a man is to be put to death, he has plenty of time to get right with Christ and receive salvation. Putting him in prison for life does nothing to increase the odds of this happening. In fact, if anything,being at death’s door is much likelier to move a man’s soul in such a way, so even on that, I believe you are wrong.
I think one of the points most missed with the “against” mentality is that they never seem to factor in the possibility that the murderer could get out again- either if the laws change in some weird way or if the person is to break out of prison. Additionally, someone who has “life” in prison has nothing to lose and is far likelier to commit murder while in prison - whether of another prisoner or of a prison employee. They are also more likely to attempt escape - nothing to lose, in other words.
I have never understood the “against” mentality. Ever. There is no logic to it and it really is not even humane.
If it were Tennessee, he would be more likely to die of natural causes while exhausting nearly endless appeals. In many cases it has been over 25 years between crime and punishment.
In capital cases, the prosecution is going to question jurors as to whether they could impose the death penalty. My answer would have to be “No.” I would then be dismissed.
In what kind of sick universe could there ever be “mitigating circumstances” for someone who raped and strangled a young girl to death?
Those morons you speak of in NH are mostly MA transplants. That is what is wrong with NH. The NH of my youth would have executed all four of those kids and Savoy would have got life.
Put him in a wood chipper feet first.
Excellent Oberon. That is not the standard applause gif, but even better, especially for those who recognize Orson Welles from Citizen Kane, the only one furiously applauding his wife’s pathetically bad opera debut. The grim look on his face speaks to the normal citizen who would like to see a fiend like Hayes drawn, hanged and quartered at noon tomorrow. Why noon and why tomorrow? So plenty of citizens can get to the place of executions to pour out spit, to pelt with excrement and to otherwise demonstrate that civilization still exists.
It's my guess that Hayes and the other perp - Joshua Komisarjevsky - will NEVER get the death penalty, as our newly "elected" (via massive voter fraud) 'RAT governor-elect Dannel Malloy, along with our 'RAT state legislature, has stated that they will do away with the death penalty in CT.
Ridding the state of the death penalty is Job #1 for these 'RATs, after they raise taxes on "the rich" of course...
I am a little befuddled about the part that the Dad ran away while his wife and daughters died. Weird. Can anyone explain this to me?
He'll kill a cellmate, a guard, someone else he meets on the exercise yard, or even a doctor examining him. He'll kill a visitor!
Dean said the only solution for these people is EXECUTION as soon as possible. He further estimated that about half the killers in prison for extended stays are in this class.
He then said that if someone out there thinks NOT EXECUTING these guys is an act of compassion he's wrong because all you've done is decided to kill an innocent person you don't even know ~ which is precisely the crime most of these killers committed.
Make it so .
Ridding the state of the death penalty is Job #1 for these 'RATs, after they raise taxes on "the rich" of course...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Connecticut
Micheal Ross was executed in 2005, after he fired his lawyers and more or less begged to be executed. Judges have way too much power and discretion to delay executions in the Northeast.
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