Steven Hayes photo mug shot.
Crackhead, burglar Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death after 17 hours of deliberations by jurors in the capital murder trial that voted that he should be put to death.
Hayes, 47, was one of two men who three years ago broke into the home of well-known endocrinologist Dr. William Petit, and carried on a seven-hour terror of rape, murder and arson that caused the deaths of his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. The daughters were tied to their beds and set on fire during the crime. Jennifer and one of the daughters were also sexually assaulted before their deaths. Dr. William Petit was severely beaten in the 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut during the morning of July 23, 2007..
Hayes’ co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky, 29, is due to be tried next week as the alleged mastermind of the mom and girls’ senseless slaughter. The two career burglars met each other in a prison half-way house.
A Connecticut man was condemned to death for a night of terror inside a suburban home in which a woman was strangled and her two daughters tied to their beds, doused in gasoline and left to die in a fire.