Second Defendant Is Convicted in Connecticut Triple Murder (home invasion/arson 2007)

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Source: AP

The second defendant in the gruesome Cheshire, Conn., home invasion in which a woman and her two daughters were tied up, doused in gas and left to die in a fire was convicted on Thursday of murder. He now faces a possible death sentence.

The defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky, whose accomplice is already on death row, stood and faced the jurors as they declared him guilty of all 17 charges he faced, including capital felony killing, kidnapping and sexual assault. After the verdict was read, he sat back in his chair, rocked slightly back and forth and glanced briefly at the jury.

The only survivor of the attack, Dr. William Petit, whose wife and daughters were killed, bit his lip at times and closed his eyes as the verdict was read.

“I thought from the beginning that he was a lying sociopathic personality and probably at this moment he doesn’t think he is guilty of anything,” Dr. Petit said after the verdict was announced.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/nyregion/komisarjevsky-convicted-of-triple-murder-in-cheshire-conn.html

[Jennicut]

1. I am from Cheshire, I grew up there.

I am glad that this is finally over for the Petit family. These murders took place down the street from my childhood home and where my parents still live. And it really affected a lot of people there. I am not usually for the death penalty but on this one, I have really wavered.