New Haven, CT – Conn. Man Sentenced To Die In High Profile Fatal Home Invasion Case

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    FILE - This July 2007 booking file photo provided by the Connecticut State Police shows Steven Hayes. On Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, in New Haven Superior Court, a jury voted unanimously to send Hayes to death row, after previously convicting him for killing the wife and two daughters of Dr. William Petit during a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., July 23, 2007.   (AP Photo/Connecticut State Police, File)New Haven, CT – A Connecticut man will be sentenced to death for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire.

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    A jury decided Monday that Steven Hayes should receive the death penalty. Jurors deliberated over four days in New Haven Superior Court. The judge will impose the sentence.

    Hayes’ attorneys tried to persuade the jury to spare his life by portraying him as a clumsy, drug addicted thief who never committed violence until the 2007 home invasion with another paroled burglar. They said Hayes’s co-defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV’-skee), escalated the violence. They say Hayes was remorseful.

    But prosecutors said both men were equally responsible.


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    festayid
    festayid
    13 years ago

    I’m glad to see justice carried out over here, this behaima deserves to die, unfortunately we have the liberals who nebach think the death penalty is inhuman and that its better to waste millions of tax payers money on having this scumbag sit in jail, such tipshim

    13 years ago

    I’m glad Elie Wiesel did not get his wish in this case.

    13 years ago

    Remorse following the extremes of brutality doesn’t sway me a bit. I say, fry him. he has cheapened the lives of others way beyond the point that we should value his. Let him have the death he brought to others. With all the pity I can muster for the drug addict, it never took him beyond the freedom to make choices and decisions. He should be held fully responsibility for his actions. I do not want my tax dollars to be used to feed or sustain him in any way.

    Just another citizen

    mj00056
    mj00056
    13 years ago

    Certainly deserves to die, but millions will be spent on numerous appeals, over the next decade.

    shimonyehuda
    shimonyehuda
    13 years ago

    i hope he feels as much pain as he gave

    mj00056
    mj00056
    13 years ago

    If all goes as planned this animal will feel no pain, just drift off to sleep, this is unfortunate and is why hangings are a better deterrent. Of course, if their is a foul up in the lethal cocktail formular protocol-all bets are off, and he will feel like he is being burned alive, from the inside out, which I hope is what happens.

    bigwheeel
    bigwheeel
    13 years ago

    The Jury came back with a just verdict (on the punishment.) This animal, who perpetrated his crime with such brutality has forfeited his right to live. Let all the liberals and bleeding hearts sing their song but in the end he will get the death penalty.

    HaMaven
    HaMaven
    13 years ago

    Oh dearest VIN.. did you have to display that face?

    HaNavon
    HaNavon
    13 years ago

    I agree with number #11 , the Gemara says “assur l’histakel b’tzelem d’mus adam rasha”, I would rather not have to look at the face of such a rasha…

    As for all of the people that are screaming about how our justice system “needs to kill” him, or anyone else, the question of why has not been answered at all.

    The question is how can a justice system which does not feel that it is acceptable to give lashes or any other physical punishment to a criminal, decide who lives and who dies?
    I do believe that this man is a rasha atzum, I do believe that we are better off without him, and I would be happy if he died (quite painfully I may add), but how exactly can you believe that the US “justice” system, which is just as corrupt as this man, should be handing out the death sentence??

    WiseDude
    WiseDude
    13 years ago

    I wonder though…in many ways perhaps the death penalty, especially by lethal injection, is a lesser penalty than being locked in a cage by yourself until you die. I would have no problem just locking this guy in a cage and let him rot on his own.

    13 years ago

    yeah, and bring bsck the electric chair for this guy!!

    enlightened-yid
    enlightened-yid
    13 years ago

    After visiting several super max prisons across the U.S. for work related reasons, I have come to a conclusion that 23/7 lock down in isolated cement closets is a much more cruel punishment. I could not bare being in such environments for more than 1 hour, just image how it is to spend life without parole in such a closet for 23 hours a day, not seeing trees, birds or even sunrise. Death penalty is a cop-out from severe punishment in my opinion. There are prisoners doing life sentences who beg to be executed because they lose their minds over time. These prisoners are literally turned into wild animals under such conditions of isolation.

    BLONDI
    BLONDI
    13 years ago

    and i think the husband should be the one to inject or pull that lever…

    13 years ago

    How does this case differ from the cold blooded killing in Florida of a police lady that caused 50,000 letters to be written to the Governor in opposition. Maybe we should write 100,000 letters to the Connecticut Governor?

    13 years ago

    That piece of garbage Komisarjevsky, who started the fire, which killed the two girls, must be sweating now, after he found out that his associate Hayes will be sentenced to death. The jury in his future trial will show him no mercy. I only regret that it took over three and a half years to bring Hayes to trial and convict him. In 1995, in Houston, Texas, a gang of Hispanics and whites, attacked two young girls over a period of hours, brutalizing them, and killing them. The only reason that they were caught, was that they kept bragging about the crime to their friends. Six of them were caught, and three were sentenced to death. It took fifteen years, but all three were put to death by the state of Texas. A fourth received life, and two others received long prison sentences. In Texas, they don’t fool around with such heinous crimes, as is in the case in other parts of the country.

    HaNavon
    HaNavon
    13 years ago

    #17 ,

    All people living within all societies are bound by social contract. When someone violates the social contract with actions that impinge on the rights of others they have exempted themselves from our society.
    If the American society has deemed it necessary to pay for things like medical care and gender change surgery (although I am yet unaware of tax dollars funding this, is it true?), then how can you support such a society in making a decision between life and death? It seems that such a society is so mixed up that they are incapable of true justice, and therefore, should not be issuing the death penalty at all.

    Besides this, it actually costs MORE to execute a prisoner than it does to imprison them for life.

    HaNavon
    HaNavon
    13 years ago

    #24 ,

    Ain hachi nami you’re right, but this country does allow everyone to have an expensive trial and expensive appeals.
    We may wish that someone could just tear up all of the laws in this country and go back to the constitution and work from there in making a set of sensible, logical and well thought out laws, but this just isn’t the way things are.
    We have a system of laws that we may or may not agree with or like, but it is the way it is.
    I can’t change the fact that it is more expensive to execute someone than to imprison them for life, because of the 25 years of appeals, all payed for by taxpayers. When you add up the cost of all of those years of appeals for the death penalty and add it to the cost of prison, it is more than the cost of prison alone.