There is a special place in hell for people this!
 

Please don't kill this guy. Put him in prison where he can get gang raped every day for the next sixty years of his life.

Conn. jury convicts man in deadly home invasion

NEW HAVEN, Conn. ? A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters in their suburban home during a night of terror that drew comparisons to "In Cold Blood" and bolstered efforts to retain the death penalty in Connecticut.

The mother was sexually assaulted and strangled. Her two girls died of smoke inhalation after the youngest was sexually assaulted, they were tied to their beds and doused in gasoline, and the house was set on fire.

Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death. His attorneys have admitted his involvement and will argue for a life sentence.

Prosecutors said Hayes and another ex-con broke into the family's house in Cheshire in 2007, beat the girls' father with a baseball bat and forced their mother, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to withdraw money from a bank before she was sexually assaulted and killed. Eleven-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley were tied to their beds, with pillowcases over their heads, before they were killed by the gas-fueled fire, authorities said.

The crime drew comparisons to "In Cold Blood," Truman Capote's chilling book about the 1959 murders of a Kansas family, and prompted more Cheshire residents to get guns. It also led to tougher laws for repeat offenders and home invasions, and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell cited the case when she vetoed a bill that would have abolished the death penalty.

The girls' father and the lone survivor, Dr. William Petit, appeared to stifle tears as the verdict was read. His head down, he sucked in his bottom lip.

"There is some relief but my family is still gone," Petit said afterward, his father and other relatives clutching him. "It doesn't bring them back. It doesn't bring back the house that we had."

Hayes showed no emotion as he stood for the verdict, which triggers the trial's second phase, beginning Oct. 18, in which the same jurors will decide if Hayes should be executed.

Petit said he hoped the jurors would use "the same diligence and clarity of thought" as they consider the sentence.

Hayes' defense conceded most of the evidence on the trial's first day, but his attorneys blamed his co-defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky, for escalating the violence at every critical point, starting with William Petit's beating. Prosecutors rejected that argument, saying the two men were equally responsible for the crime.

Komisarjevsky faces trial next year and also could be sentenced to death.

Hayes' jury heard eight days of gruesome testimony and deliberated for five hours over two days.

He was convicted of 16 counts, including six capital felony charges, three murder counts and two charges of sexually assaulting Hawke-Petit. The capital offenses were for killing two or more people, the killing of a person under 16, murder in the course of a sexual assault and three counts of intentionally causing a death during a kidnapping.

During the penalty phase, which is expected to last up to a month, Hayes' attorneys will try to persuade the jurors to spare him the death penalty. They argued during the trial that prosecutors failed to prove Hayes intended to kill the girls.

Attorneys not involved in the case said Hayes' lawyers will have difficulty showing mitigating factors that would favor prison over execution.

"If there was ever to be a hue and cry for the application of the death penalty, this case is it," said defense attorney Bruce Koffsky.

Another defense lawyer, Hugh Keefe, said: "I've never seen a case where the evidence is so egregious. Not even his mother loved him."

Prosecutors have said the crime was especially cruel and depraved.

Komisarjevsky spotted the mother and her two daughters at a supermarket, followed them to their home, then returned later with Hayes, authorities say.

During the trial, authorities showed text messages between the men hours before the crime in which Hayes told Komisarjevsky that he was "chomping at the bit to get started."

Authorities say the men were caught fleeing the scene.

Hayes, still reeking of gasoline, gave an emotionless confession to police in which he said he was financially desperate when the men hatched a plan to break into a house, tie up the family, rob them and flee. But Hayes said "things got out of control," a detective testified.

Hayes told authorities he sexually assaulted Hawke-Petit after Komisarjevsky, 30, told him he had to ? to "square things up" ? because Komisarjevsky had sexually assaulted Michaela, a detective testified.

A prison officer, Jeremiah Krob, said he overheard Hayes tell another inmate that he killed Hawke-Petit after Komisarjevsky told him he had to do it.

Hayes said Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted Michaela, took cell phone pictures of her that he tried to e-mail to friends and doused her in gasoline, Krob testified. Krob said Hayes admitted pouring gas on the stairs but told the other inmate he didn't believe he could be charged with arson because he didn't light it.

Jurors apparently agreed: They acquitted Hayes of an arson count.

William Petit told the jury he woke up on his couch the morning of July 23, 2007, in pain and feeling the sensation that blood was running down his face. He saw two people standing nearby.

"If he moves, put two bullets in him," Petit recalled one of the assailants telling the other.

Petit said the men took him to his basement and tied him to a post.

Jurors saw photos of the victims, charred beds, rope, ripped clothing and ransacked rooms. A medical examiner described the painful and panic-stricken smoke inhalation death likely suffered by Michaela. Hayley's injuries suggested she managed to free herself and was burned as she tried to flee. She also died of smoke inhalation.

When asked Tuesday how he would find the strength to attend the penalty phase and then another trial filled with the same horrifying testimony, Petit said: "If your family was destroyed by evil, I think you would all try to do the same thing and be there for your family."

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We live in a sick world at times,that's horrible

Take him to a Mexican prison and tell everyone what he did..even the cops will make sure he suffers..

Ugh, I can't imagine why a jury would decide it's better for society to spend millions of dollars to incarcerate someone like that for life, rather than to just sentence him to death. It's been proven unequivocally, that he committed the crime in question. Because of that and the sadistic nature of his crime, he deserves the death penalty.

an eye for an eye

One guy raped an 11 year old girl and then told the other guy to rape the mother to "square things up"?

Wow. I'm all for letting them rot in prison and get raped by other inmates but regardless of the sentence that guy is dead, either by jury decision or the other inmates when they find out not only did he kill a family but he raped an innocent little girl too. That shit doesn't fly.

Who needs horror films when there is actual true evil out there?

If you get such a hard dick from killing children why dont you do so yourself! This is not my America, its not my fault, and its not my responsibility! Youre the ones that created the mess America is today, not me!

Problem is, after a while, he would probably enjoy the sodomy... So then what? Still gonna cost money to keep him in there...

definitely pure evil...eye for an eye..deserves to be raped, have gasoline poured on
him and light the match

I agree, I cross my finger's he gets life as he will probably get his faster in Gen Pop on a life sentence than the isolation of death row.

Also death row actually winds up costing the state more money than housing someone in prison for life due to the lenghthy appeals process, and with all the people the Innocence Project has saved from getting killed you can't shit on the government for allowing death row inmates as many chances to appeal as they do.

I watched a show about this on TV last night, unbelievable

No, what they need to do is walk him out of the court house and fast-track him straight to the gallows and hang the fucker. Preferably while simultaneously horsewhipping him.

Scumbags like this don't deserve to breath the same air as the rest of us. Period.

I would be for life in prison but only if his cell was plastered with the "photos of the victims, charred beds, rope, ripped clothing and ransacked rooms." Let him see that every day of his miserable life.

I feel so bad for the dad that survived having to deal with that kind of pain. What sick fuckers those guys are to do something like that.

That story would make a horror movie based on true facts ...

Nah... better life in prison and then they stab him to death there.

That's the best solution.

Death penalty costs a lot of money and so is him being alive in prison.

WTF does that mean?

death is to easy

Strap them to a wall with guns pointed at their heads with strings to the triggers. Then cover them in fire ants. They can suffer a painful death or end it quickly.

These fucks do not deserve to live out life at our expense.

I dont know If I'd want to sit tru shit like that :(

I can't even respond as having two children myself - the painful horror this father must be going through would drive me insane. Even death doesn't seem to be a punishment as the state does it with such "care" so there is no suffering.

There is no blame to society only to say that there are people out there that have absolutely no morals/ethics or concern for anyone else's feelings but their own.

shove a glass rod up his cock, then break it. Send him to general population and the inmates will take care of the rest

Lock him and the other sicko up in room with the Dad, a baseball bat, some lighter fluid, and a match, while they are handcuffed each to a chair. Have one watch what is being done to the other, knowing what he fate will be.

If only daily gang rape of this guy would actually happen. If he gets life, he most likely sit by himself in protective custody, eat 3 square meals per day, watch tv and get free health care till he is pardoned by some bleeding heart liberal president who thinks he servered enough time.

That guy is fucking sick! I hope he get's ass rape buy a guy named Bubba.

I know a few good ol boys from Texas that would be glad to make him wish he was dead.

That sounds as stupid as something the demon would say.

Indeed death seems to easy for some 'things' like that.

In the UK he would get released after a few years and given a new identity at the taxpayers expense.

All the worst cases here now seem to end in this result. Sickening!