Conn. man convicted in deadly '07 home invasion faces death penalt

[smile72]

New Haven, Conn. — A man was convicted Thursday of murdering a woman and her two daughters in a gruesome 2007 home invasion in which family members were tied up, molested, doused in gas and left to die in a fire. He now faces a possible death sentence.
Joshua Komisarjevsky, whose accomplice is already on Connecticut's death row, stood and faced the jury as they declared him guilty of all 17 charges he faced, including capital felony killing, kidnapping and sexual assault. After the verdict was read he sat back in his chair, rocked slightly back and forth and glanced briefly at the jury. He yawned as he was led out of the courtroom.

The only survivor of the attack, Dr. William Petit, bit his lip at times and closed his eyes as the verdict was read.

"I thought from the beginning that he was a lying sociopathic personality and probably at this moment he doesn't think he is guilty of anything," he told reporters outside the courthouse.

The New Haven Superior Court jury deliberated for about eight hours over two before delivering a verdict and will later decide whether Komisarjevsky should be executed or sentenced to life in prison.
The New Haven Superior Court jury deliberated for about eight hours over two days before delivering a verdict and will decide later whether Komisarjevsky, 31, should be executed or sentenced to life in prison. The penalty phase will conclude the second and final trial in a case that unsettled suburb dwellers across the country and bolstered efforts to retain the death penalty in Connecticut.Komisarjevsky's co-defendant, Steven Hayes, was sentenced to death last year after he was convicted of raping and strangling Jennifer Hawke-Petit and killing her daughters, 11-year-old Michaela and 17-year-old Hayley, who died of smoke inhalation.

Opinion????

Source:MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44894512/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.TpeFNJviGU8

 

[pokefloote]

Opinion: He is a disgusting man and deserves death.

 

[Midna]

Let him burn.

 

[smile72]

I assume that you all want him to get the death penalty.

 

[celeron53]

This guy deserves the death penalty. Letting him live isn't enough.

 

[Santee]

I don't like the death penalty, it feels like he would get off to easily more like he should suffer for a good 40 years, but prison is to much like a hotel for a guy like this, I'd like something like send him live in isolation in a frozen tundra, a dessert, I don't care as long as its bad.

 

[geminisama]

Hopefully he does. Life in prison is a joke. There are many good people losing their homes, struggling day to day just to find good, to simply survive; and such heinous criminals go to prison, getting a set number of guaranteed meals a day, they have a roof over their heads, many can get educations, have a job, while not making much, get paid, all on OUR tax dollars. It's a joke that they could CONSIDER life in prison, where the most they have to deal with is beatings, shankings, or [censored]; when their victims don't have the pleasure of fearing something like that. Let the bastard burn in an electric chair, doesn't sound like he deserves the easy way out with lethal injection.

 

[smile72]

Okay so it is pretty much unanimous he should die.

 

[darkreaperofdrea]

my opinion,they don't gain nothing out of killing someone for killing other someones
it's not like they are coming back to life

 

[Nathan Drake]

And here, we once again hit a moral crossroads. By wishing death upon a man who killed others, are we truly better? Sure, you can say you didn't pull the trigger, poor the gasoline, molest, I don't particularly care what you may insert there. What you are doing though, is helping to move a mentality that a man should die. By supporting it, strength is given to that opinion, and it gains its own momentum. I don't particularly know what to say. I won't wish death upon another, but I certainly don't think he deserves prison as the system is laid out now. You can say prison is a joke, but no matter how you look at it, human and civil rights have to be obeyed.

A quote I've always liked for this type of situation:
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

 

[pachogamez]

wow, yawning after being found guilty

let him burn

too bad that his death will be painless, compared to his victims

 

[geminisama]

And here, we once again hit a moral crossroads. By wishing death upon a man who killed others, are we truly better? Sure, you can say you didn't pull the trigger, poor the gasoline, molest, I don't particularly care what you may insert there. What you are doing though, is helping to move a mentality that a man should die. By supporting it, strength is given to that opinion, and it gains its own momentum. I don't particularly know what to say. I won't wish death upon another, but I certainly don't think he deserves prison as the system is laid out now. You can say prison is a joke, but no matter how you look at it, human and civil rights have to be obeyed.

A quote I've always liked for this type of situation:
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

I see your point, but look at the alternative. Letting him live on the tax dollars of people whom don't kill and [censored], letting him grow old and live a simple, easy life while so many struggle for what he's given for killing people.

 

[smile72]

Oh I don't care about morality. I just don't believe he should die by government hands, there should be a prison brawl, give them all knifes or guns or something. Make it interesting. Plus it saves tax dollars.

 

[Midna]

my opinion,they don't gain nothing out of killing someone for killing other someones
it's not like they are coming back to life

It's called justice

 

[Magmorph]

A considerable number of people have been found not guilty after their execution. As far as I'm concerned 1 innocent person getting the death penalty is too many.

 

[Nathan Drake]

my opinion,they don't gain nothing out of killing someone for killing other someones
it's not like they are coming back to life

It's called justice

Justice in America is abused and meaningless. If anybody still knew how to deliver it, some justice would actually go around every now and again.

And here, we once again hit a moral crossroads. By wishing death upon a man who killed others, are we truly better? Sure, you can say you didn't pull the trigger, poor the gasoline, molest, I don't particularly care what you may insert there. What you are doing though, is helping to move a mentality that a man should die. By supporting it, strength is given to that opinion, and it gains its own momentum. I don't particularly know what to say. I won't wish death upon another, but I certainly don't think he deserves prison as the system is laid out now. You can say prison is a joke, but no matter how you look at it, human and civil rights have to be obeyed.

A quote I've always liked for this type of situation:
"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."

I see your point, but look at the alternative. Letting him live on the tax dollars of people whom don't kill and [censored], letting him grow old and live a simple, easy life while so many struggle for what he's given for killing people.

And yet here we are, spending tax dollars on taking care of him until execution, tax dollars on the execution, tax dollars to catch him, tax dollars to detain him, tax dollars for his trial, etc. Can't really win where money is concerned.

 

[smile72]

He's pretty much guilty.

 

[pkl2007]

my opinion,they don't gain nothing out of killing someone for killing other someones
it's not like they are coming back to life

It's called justice

to be honest i think its payback, but if you think about if you were to be put in the spot of taking someones life away i won't do it. the death penalty is murder, torture the guy at the most.

 

[smile72]

Nathan Drake are you saying we should just do nothing.

 

[darkreaperofdrea]

justice without freedom ain't justice"
nuff said