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No pic of the perps - they don't deserve it. This is the family they destroyed.
Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death on all 6 counts in the Petit family murders. His partner, Joshua Komisarjevky, goes on trial next.
Mother and the youngest daughter were raped. Then the mother was killed, both daughters (Haley, 17, and Michaela, 11) were tied to their beds, doused with gasoline then burned alive. A key part of his defense was an accusation that the cops took too long to get there
If anyone ever deserved a death sentence....
NY Times....
Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death on all 6 counts in the Petit family murders. His partner, Joshua Komisarjevky, goes on trial next.
Mother and the youngest daughter were raped. Then the mother was killed, both daughters (Haley, 17, and Michaela, 11) were tied to their beds, doused with gasoline then burned alive. A key part of his defense was an accusation that the cops took too long to get there
If anyone ever deserved a death sentence....
NY Times....
NEW HAVEN — A jury in Connecticut voted on Monday to impose the death penalty for a long-time criminal convicted for his role in a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., that left a mother and her two daughters dead. The panel had deliberated just more than three full days.
The 2007 crime horrified, fascinated and repelled from the start. It was called one of the worst in Connecticut history and was compared with the grisly family murder that was the centerpiece of Truman Capote’s account of a 1959 family killing in Kansas, “In Cold Blood.â€
The details were stark: two habitual criminals invaded the quiet suburban home of a doctor and his family after spotting them in a shopping center parking lot the day before. In a night and morning of unimaginable terrors, they beat and tied up the doctor, forced the mother to withdraw $15,000 from a bank, before sexually abusing her and her youngest daughter, then strangling the mother and setting a blaze that killed her two daughters and blackened the home.
The killings brought a searching review of criminal justice and corrections practices in the state and, particularly during the recent election, came to be the prism through which the state viewed a debate about the future of the death penalty.
The defendant, Steven J. Hayes, a parolee at the time of the 2007 crime, has spent much of his adult life as a prisoner.
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The 2007 crime horrified, fascinated and repelled from the start. It was called one of the worst in Connecticut history and was compared with the grisly family murder that was the centerpiece of Truman Capote’s account of a 1959 family killing in Kansas, “In Cold Blood.â€
The details were stark: two habitual criminals invaded the quiet suburban home of a doctor and his family after spotting them in a shopping center parking lot the day before. In a night and morning of unimaginable terrors, they beat and tied up the doctor, forced the mother to withdraw $15,000 from a bank, before sexually abusing her and her youngest daughter, then strangling the mother and setting a blaze that killed her two daughters and blackened the home.
The killings brought a searching review of criminal justice and corrections practices in the state and, particularly during the recent election, came to be the prism through which the state viewed a debate about the future of the death penalty.
The defendant, Steven J. Hayes, a parolee at the time of the 2007 crime, has spent much of his adult life as a prisoner.
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