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"The Sooner Hayes Is Executed, The Better"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this potent commentary in today's Hartford Courant, to which I immediately respond "Yeah, good luck with that." Here are excerpts: The killer shall be killed ? so said the jury in the Cheshire home invasion murder case. Steven Hayes, one of the two men accused of entering the home of the William Petit Jr. family on that July night in 2007, will join 10 other men on Connecticut's death row. Hayes has earned the needle. He should die, even though his death will not bring back Petit's wife, Jennifer, and daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11. He should die, even though his death will not make us safer.  He should die, though his death will take forever and a day to occur.  He should die, though the logic and reason for the death penalty offer little to support its continuation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).