One of the Home invaders of the Petit family has been sentenced to death.
A U.S. man was sentenced Friday to die for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their suburban home, a crime that halted momentum to abolish the death penalty in the state of Connecticut.
For those who don’t remember this crime.
Hayes was convicted in 2010 of raping and strangling Hawke-Petit and killing the girls. The girls were tied to their beds and doused in gasoline before the house was set ablaze; they died of smoke inhalation. Komisarjevsky was convicted of the killings and of sexually assaulting Michaela.
Of Course not all is bright.
Komisarjevsky joins accomplice Steven Hayes and nine other men on Connecticut’s death row. The state’s last execution in 2005 was the first since 1960, and Komisarjevsky will likely spend years, if not decades, in prison.
For those of us not intimately involved in the case this is a vague memory, 20 years from only the family will remember the case, and news junkies like myself will say “Oh yeah, I remember that horrible crime….” when we hear the headline of him being executed, or maybe dying of natural causes on death row.
There is no deterrent effect, nor justice in people spending that much time on Death Row…and 20 years from now appeals will be History lessons, not prompt trials.
Its a shame its such a farce.
Yeah, if you are going to bother with the death penalty, don’t mince about. Give him a year for appeals or whatever and then just do it. Otherwise, why not just say “Life in prison” since that what it amounts to anyway.
A year for appeals, and then a .45 to the back of the head. Why waste valuable chemicals on scum? And don’t give me this “it’s more humane” horseshit; a CNS shot is like turning off a light, I’m told.
And if I’m wrong? I could give a fuck. Murderers and rapists SHOULD suffer.
I’m actually strongly against the Lethal injection method. A shot to the head would be a very humane way to put down people not fit to live in our society. Tho for tradition and orthodoxy I think the long-drop hanging method is about as humane as you can get without needing a pressure-washer for clean-up.
Now if we do want to give them the needle why go with the crazy complicated and controversial 3 drug method (I know you say they should suffer, but frankly there is no way to gain retribution for their acts, so I think the best path is to end their life quickly and with more dignity than they ever showed and get them in the ground…the 3 drug method allegedly is VERY painful for the condemned, just not in a way anybody can see…not sure how true that is but I can see the concern) and use the cheap, simple, and actually pleasant method of a morphine titration.
I concede the point that hanging is cleaner (and cheaper) than a bullet to the head.
I am strongly against wasting valuable resources such as morphine on condemned criminals.
How about heroine? Or Meth? Cocaine? Or any other drug we’ve seized in massive quantities in the Wo(S)D?
Hell, use marijuana just don’t let the CO2 escape the teeny little room we put them in.
Heck, make it a source of revenue, charge $500 for a license on the firing squad. If the waiting list gets too long, up the price to $5000. If it’s still too long, lottery at $5 a chance, enter as often as you like…
Don’t even have to be a firing squad, line up a bank of buttons to the rub goldberg 3-drug execution machine and have just one wired to “fire”.
Notice how the anti-rights cultists don’t talk about these types of crimes or these victims?
They know if they do; they will expose their agenda to keep people disarmed and as vulnerable as this family was.
I propose a tw0-judge system for Capital Murder trials. One judge tries the case and the other review the process, facts, etc — the first level of appeal.
That is an automatic function after the criminal proceedings close. The judge rules on the automatic appeal. Then the defendant/convict has a set time period, say 2 years, for any additional appeals before execution.
Farce is right… dammit…
Guillotine….100% success rate…and no prisoner complaints of excess suffering….
12 gauge is even cheaper than .45 ACP… Jut sayin’…
Bullets may be cheap. but rope is re-useable
Wood chipper in the prison graveyard mulch pile. Just toss the straight jacketed bums in feet first. Hose it down. It’s the green thing to do.