NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man has been sentenced to death for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their suburban home.
Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV’-skee) joins his accomplice, Steven Hayes, and nine other men on Connecticut’s death row. The state’s last execution in 2005 was the first since 1960. That means the 31-year-old Komisarjevsky will likely spend decades in prison.
A jury condemned Komisarjevsky to death Dec. 9. He was sentenced by a judge Friday in New Haven Superior Court. A jury had earlier recommended the death penalty.
The two paroled burglars tormented a family of four in the affluent New Haven suburb of Cheshire before killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and leaving her daughters to die in a fire.
