When is steven hayes getting the death penalty

Hawke-Petit's husband and the girls' father, Dr. William Petit, was badly beaten during the home invasion but survived. He did not attend the hearing but issued a statement critical of the resentencing. A hearing originally scheduled for Friday to resentence Komisarjevsky has been postponed.

His attorneys are seeking a new trial, arguing the defense did not receive all the evidence to which it was entitled, including some police dispatch tapes. Hayes was convicted of six capital felony charges, three murder counts and two charges of sexually assaulting Hawke-Petit.

His attorneys tried to persuade jurors to spare him the death penalty by portraying him as a clumsy, drug-addicted thief who never committed violence until the home invasion, and they called Komisarjevsky the mastermind and said he escalated the violence.

As Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela Petit shopped at a local supermarket, unbeknownst to them, they had been targeted by Komisarjevsky, who followed them home, and planned to later rob the family by home invasion.

Anticipating their deeds, Hayes and Komisarjevsky exchanged text messages that were later introduced in court. Hayes first messaged Komisarjevsky: "I'm chomping at the bit to get started. Need a margarita soon". Hayes then texts: "We still on?

Hayes' next text asks, "Soon? Hayes then asserts "Dude, the horses want to get loose. According to Hayes' confession, the two men planned to rob the house and flee the scene with the family bound and unharmed. Hayes attributed the outcome of the spree to a change in their plan.

Upon their early morning arrival, they found William Petit sleeping on a couch on the porch. With a bat Komisarjevsky had found in the yard, he bludgeoned William and then restrained him in the basement at gun point.

The children and their mother were each bound and locked in their respective rooms. Hayes says he and Komisarjevsky were not satisfied with their haul, and that a bankbook was found which had an available balance.

After returning to the house, and unloading the gas, he took her to the bank. The prosecution later entered this as evidence of premeditation. The bank surveillance cameras captured the transaction which shows Hawke-Petit in the morning of July 23 as she informed the teller of her situation.

The teller then called and reported the details to police. Hawke-Petit left the bank, was picked up by Hayes, who had escorted her there, and drove away. These actions were reported to the dispatcher and recorded in real time. The teller stated that Hawke-Petit had indicated the assailants were "being nice", and she believed they only wanted money. The Cheshire police response to the bank tellers' "urgent bid" began with assessing the situation and setting up a vehicle perimeter.

These preliminary measures employed by the police exhausted more than half an hour and provided the time used by the assailants to conclude their modified plan. During this time, Hayes and Komisarjevsky escalated the aggravated nature of their crimes. Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted the year-old daughter, Michaela.

Komisarjevsky, who had photographed the sexual assault of the youth on his cell phone, then provoked Hayes to rape Hawke-Petit.

While Hayes was raping Hawke-Petit on the floor of her living room, Komisarjevsky entered the room announcing that William Petit had escaped. Hayes then strangled Hawke-Petit, doused her lifeless body and parts of the house including the daughters' rooms with gasoline. The daughters, while tied to their beds, had both been doused with gasoline; each had her head covered with a pillowcase. A fire was then ignited, and Hayes and Komisarjevsky fled the scene. William Petit had been able to free himself, escape his confines, and call to a neighbor for help.

The neighbor indicated that he did not recognize Petit, due to the severity of Petit's injuries. In court testimony, William Petit stated that he felt a "jolt of adrenaline" coupled with a need to escape upon hearing one of the perpetrators state: "Don't worry, it's going to be all over in a couple of minutes. Hayes and Komisarjevsky fled the scene using the Petit family car.

They were immediately spotted by police surveillance, pursued by police, apprehended, and arrested one block away. The whole invasion lasted seven hours.

The scenario was revealed in a confession by Hayes just hours after the killings. Detectives testified that Hayes exuded a strong stench of gasoline throughout the interrogation.

Each perpetrator was said to have blamed or implicated the other as the mastermind and driving force behind the spree.

There were even attempts to blame William Petit as an accomplice. A diary kept by Komisarjevsky was entered into evidence which also blamed William. This account called him a "coward" and claimed he could have stopped the murders had he wanted to.

Jennifer Hawke-Petit , age 48, was a nurse and co-director of the health center at Cheshire Academy, a private boarding school. She met her husband, William Petit, in on a pediatric rotation at Children's Hospital when he was a third-year medical student at the University of Pittsburgh and she was a new nurse.

Michaela Petit , age 11, attended the Chase Collegiate School before her death. William Petit , the sole survivor of the home invasion, is an endocrinologist in Cheshire. He survived when he escaped to a neighbor's house, despite his injuries. He has not returned to his medical practice since the murders, stating his desire to be active in the foundations set up to honor the memory of his deceased family Perpetrators.

Steven J. Hayes born May 30, , in Homestead, Florida was found guilty on 16 out of 17 counts related to the home invasion murders on October 5, On November 8, , the jury returned with a recommendation for Hayes to be executed by the State. Blue on December 2, Hayes is an inmate of the Connecticut Department of Correction. His criminal history shows him sentenced for his first offense at the age of He is incarcerated in the Northern Correctional Institution, which houses the state's death row for men, in Somers.

The method of execution currently employed by Connecticut is lethal injection, and the state execution chamber is located in the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers. Joshua A. Komisarjevsky born August 10, was Hayes' accomplice in the home invasion and murder of William Petit's wife and two daughters. He was born in and adopted by the son of playwright Theodore Komisarjevsky. His trial began September 19, , and on October 13, , he was convicted on all 17 counts.

On December 9, , the jury recommended the death penalty. The jury in Hayes' case was composed of seven women and five men. In the guilt phase of the Hayes trial, the jury had deliberated for about four hours to arrive at its guilty verdicts. The second phase of the trial began on October 18, , in which the jurors who found Hayes guilty decided if Hayes should be executed or face life imprisonment. The second day of jury deliberations started on November 6, Hayes' attorney Thomas Ullman told the jury that a sentence of life in prison would be the harshest possible punishment for Hayes, because he is so tormented by his crimes and would be isolated in prison.

If you want to end his misery, put him to death," he added. On November 8, , the jury returned with a recommendation for Steven Hayes to be executed by the State. The jury recommended a death sentence on each of the six capital felony counts for which Hayes was convicted. Hayes had previously attempted to receive a life sentence in a plea bargain. After the verdict, Hayes' defense attorney stated: "Hayes smiled upon hearing the jury's recommendation of a death sentence.

He's very happy with the verdict. That's what he's wanted all along. The Connecticut state judicial branch, for the first time in state history, offered post-traumatic stress assistance to jurors who served in the triple-murder trial. Because the jurors were required to look at disturbing images and hear grisly testimony, during the two-month trial, their service necessitated these actions.

On December 2, , after Hayes apologized for the pain and suffering he had caused to the Petit family and added that "Death for me will be a welcome relief and I hope it will bring some peace and comfort to those who I have hurt so much," presiding Judge Jon Blue formally imposed six death sentences, one for each of the capital charges Hayes was convicted of; Blue then added a sentence of years for other crimes Hayes committed during the home invasion, including kidnapping, burglary, and assault, before finishing with, "This is a terrible sentence, but is, in truth, a sentence you wrote for yourself in flames.

May God have mercy on your soul. Trial of Komisarjevsky. Komisarjevsky was found guilty on October 13, On January 27, , Komisarjevsky was sentenced to death by lethal injection. During the hearing, Komisarjevsky insisted he did not intend to kill anyone and spoke about the shame, hurt and disappointment he had caused: "I will never find peace within.

One of two men sentenced to death for the slayings of a mother and her two daughters during a home invasion in a wealthy suburb was resentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Steven Hayes is the first of 11 death row inmates to be resentenced since the state Supreme Court ruled in August that their sentences violated the state constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and was out of step with contemporary standards of decency.

The court reaffirmed that ruling last month in considering a law passed by Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democrat-controlled legislature that abolished the death penalty for future cases. Malloy and the legislature had insisted on that as a condition of their support for repeal in a long-running debate that focused on the Cheshire home invasion.

The law left 11 men, including Hayes, still facing execution. The majority in last year's landmark ruling essentially said it wouldn't be fair to execute the remaining death row inmates when lawmakers had determined the death penalty was no longer needed for future killers.