Two scumbags (actually thats being waaaay to nice)...killed 3 of 4 family members (actually beat the husband with a baseball bat, but he lived) in Cheshire, CT.
These two guys raped, and then set on fire the mother and two daughters...just makes you sick...
Its hard to see why these two guys (one has been just been found guilty) should not get the death penalty...
Amen....
I've always been an advocate of giving them the same death sentence they gave their victims. But obviously, that will never happen. Life in prison is more of a prize than a punishment.
Wendell
I'm a little different. I think the family should get one week to beat them daily, with their implement of choice. Then heal them up and let the next family member have at them. Do the same for as many family members as were affected. They will wish for death long before it is granted to them.
That is a true punishment.
From what I just read they just convicted him and now the death penalty phase of the trial is starting next. I think the minimum sentance they can get is life without parole, but it hasn't been decided yet.
"Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Hayes. At the penalty phase, jurors will determine whether the mitigating evidence the defense is expected to present will outweigh the aggravating factors in favor of the death penalty. Judge Jon Blue set the penalty phase to begin October 18."
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/05/connecticut.murder.trial/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1
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jud
On A Sort of Related Note.......
......another prominent Connecticut resident was sentenced today.
Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani immigrant who tried to kill Americans by driving a homemade car bomb into Times Square in May and leaving it to explode has been sentenced to life in prison. The judge gave him a mandatory life prison term at his sentencing today in Manhattan federal court.
When he heard his sentence, Shahzad exclaimed, "Allah hoo akbar (God is great)" in Arabic. Shazad pleaded guilty in June to all 10 counts against him, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, after driving an SUV laden with fertilizer, fireworks, propane tanks and gasoline into Times Square on May 1. The vehicle failed to explode. I walk past the site where the SUV was parked on average once a week.
Shahzad was a naturalized American citizen, who spent most of his 10 years in America in Shelton, Connecticut, a suburb 15 minutes north of Bridgeport. He earned between 50 and 70 K a year as a brokerage analyst, and had a wife and two children.
Cowboy
They should have sprung for a box of .22 shells and ended him.
I am a firm believer that the punishment should fit the crime. These two need to be removed from Earth permanently. Perhaps we could give them to some country where available punishments include the sawing off of anything that can be sawed prior to decapitation. Our justice system dictates that they are innocent until proven guilty. It is unfortunate that the system cannot act more quickly and with more barbaric, public punishment.
Kris
Well, actually, I was surprised that the sentence was so long.....he had apparently been cooperating with the police, FBI, etc., in interrogations, and additional accomplices were arrested, on what must have been his testimony. He talked for about two weeks after he was caught.
Also, for someone who was cooperating so freely at the beginning, he seems rather militant in these latest statements to the court....if I were the conspiracy-minded type, I might wonder if there isn't some sort of deal going on to keep him talking and keep his family safe.
Also, he didn't actually kill anybody, so I'm not so quick to condemn him to death.
The other guy, in CT......that's another story.
Angelo
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> Also, he didn't actually kill anybody, so I'm not so quick to condemn him to death.
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Well, think of it like brushing your teeth, preventative maintenance.
Bury them in the ground with only their heads sticking up.
Run over them with a bushhog.
Tommy
The only problem, that I see with that, is that some of these criminals heads are so hard, the stump jumper may not do it's job correctly, thereby breaking the implement.
Syringes and air bubbles though, now that's a cheap and effective way of getting the deed done. You don't have to NOT share needles, cause it doesn't matter.
Kris, et. al.
Rope is Cheap and Reusable.
Public Hangings need to be brought back.
SJ
Wendell
> I'm a little different. I think the family should get one week to beat them daily, with their implement of choice. Then heal them up and let the next family member have at them. Do the same for as many family members as were affected. They will wish for death long before it is granted to them.
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> That is a true punishment.
Ouch!!! :-O But true!!
At one point and time in my life I was a supporter of the death penalty, but as I have aged I have changed my mind.
I think they should get life, without parole, in solitary confinement, until the day they die and hopefully they will live a long time.
Wendell
> I'm a little different. I think the family should get one week to beat them daily, with their implement of choice. Then heal them up and let the next family member have at them. Do the same for as many family members as were affected. They will wish for death long before it is granted to them.
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> That is a true punishment.
If I was that man, the persons who did that would be thanking the police profusely that the PD found them before I found them. They would have confessed to be sure to get life without parole.
S.C.
> Well, actually, I was surprised that the sentence was so long.....he had apparently been cooperating with the police, FBI, etc., in interrogations, and additional accomplices were arrested, on what must have been his testimony. He talked for about two weeks after he was caught.
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> Also, for someone who was cooperating so freely at the beginning, he seems rather militant in these latest statements to the court....if I were the conspiracy-minded type, I might wonder if there isn't some sort of deal going on to keep him talking and keep his family safe.
I believe the reason he was "cooperating" was in accordance with his ideas of martyrdom, not because of any remorse. He was bragging about his acts so he could get in good with his god. I read where the judge asked him if he declared an oath of loyalty to the U.S. during his naturalization, and he said that he did but that he did not mean it.
That is why he got the maximum.
