Unbelievably there is a strong chance that Connecticut will abolish the death penalty which would spare the rotten depraved lives of the Cheshire home invaders. This is an outrage beyond words but the anti capital punishment people are relentless in their attempts to thwart the will of the people. Hopefully both cretins will meet the ultimate punishment in prison with a sieve stuck into their necks.
by Robert Blecker
As I peeked through the window at Steven Hayes, lying on his bed on Connecticut’s death row earlier this month, I spotted a Hershey bar on his desk. I mentioned it a few days later, while testifying in Hartford against repeal of the state’s death penalty. “So what if he has a Hershey bar?” Sen. Eric Coleman demanded.
Yes, even as the prosecution and defense struggle to pick a jury to try Joshua Komisarjevsky, Hayes’ alleged partner in the rape and murder of the Petit family, the Nutmeg State is considering abolishing capital punishment — “prospectively only.”
A family destroyed: Dr. William Petit Jr. with his daughters, Michaela (front) and Hayley (rear), and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit. Steven Hayes is sentenced to die for the murders of the girls and their mother.
In theory, this could leave Hayes on death row, condemned to die, while sparing all future depraved scum like him. In reality — given the relentless appeals and commutation campaigns that the anti-death penalty crowd are sure to engage in — repeal would give a new lease on life to the man who raped and strangled Jennifer Hawke-Petit, after tying her daughters to their beds.
Remember: With the girls still conscious and roped to their beds, the depraved sadists doused the sisters’ bedrooms in gasoline, lit the match and immolated them both.
Contrast that horror to what I saw in Hayes’ cell — not just the candy bar, but his empty bunk piled with bags of potato chips and other goodies from the commissary.
But my outrage failed to moved Sen. Coleman. “It’s so trivial,” he countered. “So what if he has a Hershey bar?”
I gulped: “He shouldn’t experience that sweetness, that delicious taste of chocolate. Given what he did — who he stripped of life and how he stripped them of it.”
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Life without parole is worse than death, opponents assure us. They will die in prison, one day at a time.
But we all die one day at a time. The real issue is how we live.
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“There will be no huge political consequences,” Barry Scheck told legislators the same day I testified. “You’re going to be shocked,” insisted the co-founder of the Innocence Project and member of OJ Simpson’s Dream Team. Never mind the courts that would have to deal with the condemned now litigating their way off death row: “If you abolish capital punishment prospectively only,” Scheck laughed, “people are not going to even really notice the next day.”
I refuse to believe that. The people of Connecticut must pressure their lawmakers to reject this unprincipled bill. Meanwhile, the rest of us can only wait for justice and wonder.
Read the rest here: Keep Connecticut’s ‘ultimate penalty’
