11-08-2010, 12:52 PM
good, i was beginning to worry about the jury. judge has to impose sentence.
NY TIMES:
NEW HAVEN — A jury in Connecticut voted on Monday to impose the death penalty for a long-time criminal convicted for his role in a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., that left a mother and her two daughters dead. The panel had deliberated just more than three full days.
The jurors stood in the jury box, some looking drawn, as the clerk of the court read through the long verdict form they had filled out. Some members of the victims’ family rested their heads on the benches in front of them. The defendant, Steven J. Hayes, sat motionless at the defense table.
All the jurors somberly answered "yes" when the clerk asked if they all agreed that that was their verdict. One wiped tears from her eyes.
The jury found that all six of the felony counts of which Mr. Hayes had been convicted required that he face the death penalty.
NY TIMES:
NEW HAVEN — A jury in Connecticut voted on Monday to impose the death penalty for a long-time criminal convicted for his role in a home invasion in Cheshire, Conn., that left a mother and her two daughters dead. The panel had deliberated just more than three full days.
The jurors stood in the jury box, some looking drawn, as the clerk of the court read through the long verdict form they had filled out. Some members of the victims’ family rested their heads on the benches in front of them. The defendant, Steven J. Hayes, sat motionless at the defense table.
All the jurors somberly answered "yes" when the clerk asked if they all agreed that that was their verdict. One wiped tears from her eyes.
The jury found that all six of the felony counts of which Mr. Hayes had been convicted required that he face the death penalty.