Posted on 10/05/2010 11:44:14 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
NEW HAVEN — A jury has found career criminal Steven Hayes guilty of murder and other crimes, including some punishable by death, in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion that led to the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters, Hayley and Michaela.
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Good. He was clearly guilty. I hope they give him the death penalty for this hideous crime. Few people have deserved it more. Has his accomplice (and apparently the instigator) been tried yet?
I read somewhere that death row inmates have a higher probability of dying of old age than being executed. When people ask me how I feel about the death penalty, I tell them it’s a good idea and we should give it a try.
Good, he deserves execution.
Put him in the fast lane for the death penalty
I just read that Komisarjevsky, the younger criminal who was the instigator of all this, has not yet been tried.
IIRC, he was a Russian adoptee and had never socialized. He had been caught breaking into houses several times by the time he was 12, was known to enjoy torturing and killing small animals, and had a string of arrests for all sorts of things. He was in the half-way house because he hadn’t, in theory at least, committed a crime of violence, although several mental health people recommended against putting him there because he had a classic violent offender profile - escalating crimes and an early history of violence against defenseless creatures.
Some people just need killing. Bring in a good Orthodox priest, give him a chance to repent, and kill him.
I’m sure you’re right and sadly most states are the same that have a death sentence.
Thanks for the details. So many people here think that people who get their jollies torturing and killing animals are not doing anything terrible, or that it doesn’t mean they are goingto start doing it to people. We shouldn’t be hard on them because it’s “not people”. We shouldn’t regard what they’ve done as being serious or posing dangers to the rest of us, they were “just animals”.
Killing and torturing small animals is THE CLASSIC WARNING SIGN, it is THE stepping stone to moving on to killing people. It is a huge deal. Almost to a tee every serial killer started torturing and killing animals. ALL people who do this are sociopathic and extremely dangerous to anything and anyone else that is alive. To them killing something gives them pleasure, their conscience is totally turned off regarding inflicting pain and death to other living things. They get their rocks off doing it, and soon animals aren’t enough.
You had me going there for a minute, until I quickly checked the FNC pages. STEPHEN HAYES is the very likeable (and sensible) guy who is frequently on FNC Special Report’s Panel at 6:30 EDT. The name of the cretan in your article is spelled Steven.
Stephen Hayes on FNC, by the way, DID NOT join Chas. Krauthammer in bad-mouthing Christine O’Donnell when she whupped up on Mike Castle in DE a few weeks ago.
Horrible case, deepest sympathies and prayers to the family, but this outcome is dissatisfactory.
The citizen’s right to serve the instant death penalty in self-defense would have saved promising and precious lives, time, money paid to lawyers, and now, taxpayer money to hold the perps, for probably a long time, in this case.
A CT native, I had hoped that this case would open some eyes about the need to protect yourself and your family, no matter how “nice” your neighborhood or how responsive the local police can be. Wrong; it’s all about the death penalty and lawyers once more. Poor Dr. Petit and poor citizens of Connecticut.
Let’s hope and pray that the twelve people on this jury stick together and destroys this piece of human debris. If there was ever a case that cries out for the death penalty this is it.
These two sociopaths who committed these horrible crimes certainly deserve the death penalty. Or as a female relative who lives near the former Petit residence says: “Minimally, they deserve to be filleted with a very rusty knife.”
Kudos to the jury for their decision. They saw through the defense attorney's shenanigans of making a joke of the criminal system. And I hope the second perp realizes he faces the same fate as his cohort.
If you were the lawyer defending these two scumbags, what would you have done?
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