Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death on all six capital felony counts in the 2007 Cheshire home invasion. My first reaction was how Dr. William Petit Jr. and all the people closest to the three people murdered must feel about this development. Petit, the lone survivor of the home invasion, favored the death sentence, as did Connecticut governor Jodi Rell. I can't imagine what it will be like for Dr. Petit and others who will have to go through this process again next year with the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, but there is some comfort in knowing justice is being done. The death penalty has never been proven more effective as a deterrent than other forms of punishment, but some crimes are so abhorrent that the ultimate sentence is the least society can impose.
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