Joshua Komisarjevsky, sentenced to death today in Connecticut.By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN
Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A jury condemned a Connecticut man to death today for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror inside their suburban home, rejecting defense attorneys’ request to spare his life in light of the abuse he suffered as a boy.
The jury deliberated over the span of five days before returning the verdict against Joshua Komisarjevsky, who will join his accomplice Steven Hayes on Connecticut’s death row. Komisarjevsky had no visible reaction.
The two paroled burglars tormented a family of four in the New Haven suburb of Cheshire before killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and leaving her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela, to die in a fire.