It won't be long
Taken from:http://crime.about.com/b/a/257508.htm
"The quiet Connecticut town of Cheshire has been stunned by a brutal home invasion that left a home in flames, a wife and her two daughters dead and a bloody and battered father in the hospital. Dr. William A. Petit Jr. survived the day-long attack, but his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their two daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, did not.
Authorities said two men broke into the Petit home early Monday morning, held the family hostage for hours, took one of the female hostages to the bank to withdraw money, set the house on fire to cover their tracks, and literally ran into the police as they tried to escape in the family's car.
Bank employees became suspicious when Jennifer Hawke-Petit showed up at the Bank of American branch with one of the kidnappers to make a withdrawal and notified police. As the police approached the home, iT was in flames and two men rammed several police cars before being captured at gunpoint.
Career Criminals Arrested
Arrested were two recent parolees with criminal records, Joshua Komisarjevsky (pictured), 26, and Steven Hayes, 44. Police said both previously lived in the same halfway house after being paroled from prison.
Komisarjevsky is charged with one count of first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.
Hayes is charged with one count of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping."
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Heartbreaking isnt it? When I first came upon this story on digg it saddened me but not half as much as some of the comments i read. Here are a few of them.
"Does connecticut have death penalty?
If it does, it's a pretty done deal that these guys get it.
And, let's face it, they've richly deserved it. Their deaths will make the world a better, safer, place."
"As far as the criminals go, I don't think they should get the electric chair, or the gas chamber. I think they should have exactly what they did done right back to them. Tie'em to a chair, and torch the building they're in. Let them die as they have killed..."
"Nothing short of a public burning at the stake, ala Joan of Arc, would be adequate justice for these two"
At first I agreed with them seeing as how it seems the only way to atone for a crime this horrible would be with their lives. Then I stepped back and took a look at myself and these people getting so many diggs for wanting these mens blood. I'll admit that I have a morbid since of humor and taste. I joke non-chalantly about horrible things happening to people and admire fiction and art where death and tradgedy play a heavy part. Reality is a different story however.
After this truly hit me as being real and the pain that poor man must be going through. I wondered if the death of these two butchers would really change anything. It wouldnt bring the lives back that they took. It would only be part of the retoric mankind plays over and over. "Death to the monsters, let us take retrbution. We are the hand of god."
As sad as it is its not the death of these criminals, the mutilation of a family or the unending pain of a man that dedicated his live to helping others that saddens me the most. Its the death of hope.
"The quiet Connecticut town of Cheshire has been stunned by a brutal home invasion that left a home in flames, a wife and her two daughters dead and a bloody and battered father in the hospital. Dr. William A. Petit Jr. survived the day-long attack, but his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit and their two daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, did not.
Authorities said two men broke into the Petit home early Monday morning, held the family hostage for hours, took one of the female hostages to the bank to withdraw money, set the house on fire to cover their tracks, and literally ran into the police as they tried to escape in the family's car.
Bank employees became suspicious when Jennifer Hawke-Petit showed up at the Bank of American branch with one of the kidnappers to make a withdrawal and notified police. As the police approached the home, iT was in flames and two men rammed several police cars before being captured at gunpoint.
Career Criminals Arrested
Arrested were two recent parolees with criminal records, Joshua Komisarjevsky (pictured), 26, and Steven Hayes, 44. Police said both previously lived in the same halfway house after being paroled from prison.
Komisarjevsky is charged with one count of first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.
Hayes is charged with one count of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping."
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Heartbreaking isnt it? When I first came upon this story on digg it saddened me but not half as much as some of the comments i read. Here are a few of them.
"Does connecticut have death penalty?
If it does, it's a pretty done deal that these guys get it.
And, let's face it, they've richly deserved it. Their deaths will make the world a better, safer, place."
"As far as the criminals go, I don't think they should get the electric chair, or the gas chamber. I think they should have exactly what they did done right back to them. Tie'em to a chair, and torch the building they're in. Let them die as they have killed..."
"Nothing short of a public burning at the stake, ala Joan of Arc, would be adequate justice for these two"
At first I agreed with them seeing as how it seems the only way to atone for a crime this horrible would be with their lives. Then I stepped back and took a look at myself and these people getting so many diggs for wanting these mens blood. I'll admit that I have a morbid since of humor and taste. I joke non-chalantly about horrible things happening to people and admire fiction and art where death and tradgedy play a heavy part. Reality is a different story however.
After this truly hit me as being real and the pain that poor man must be going through. I wondered if the death of these two butchers would really change anything. It wouldnt bring the lives back that they took. It would only be part of the retoric mankind plays over and over. "Death to the monsters, let us take retrbution. We are the hand of god."
As sad as it is its not the death of these criminals, the mutilation of a family or the unending pain of a man that dedicated his live to helping others that saddens me the most. Its the death of hope.