The sole survivor of a 2007 Connecticut home invasion plans to remarry, his spokesman said Thursday.
Death sentences plunged this year and the number of executions continued a steady decline as a result of "growing discomfort" felt by many Americans on the application of capital punishment.
A jury recommended Friday that Joshua Komisarjevsky receive the death penalty for his role in a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007.
Jurors will continue deliberations on Friday on whether Joshua Komisarjevsky will be put to death for his role in a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007.
Jurors will continue deliberations Thursday on whether Joshua Komisarjevsky will be put to death for his role in a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion.
Jurors were unable to reach a decision Wednesday on whether Joshua Komisarjevsky will be put to death for his role in a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion.
Jurors deciding whether to sentence a man convicted of murdering a Connecticut mother and two daughters to life in prison or to death are set to resume deliberations on Tuesday.
The defense and prosecution rested Tuesday in the sentencing phase of the trial for Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man convicted in a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion.
It may be December before the second man convicted in a 2007 deadly Connecticut home invasion learns if he will die for his role in a crime that drew worldwide attention.
Joshua Komisarjevsky faces the death penalty for the triple-homicide in Connecticut
Reacting to the guilty verdict again Joshua Komisarjevsky, Dr. William Petit fondly remembers his daughter Michaela.
Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man to be tried in connection with a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007.
Joshua Komisarjevsky, the second man to be tried in connection with a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion, was found guilty on all counts during the second day of deliberations Thursday in a case that drew worldwide attention and sparked broader discussions about safety in the home.
Jurors heard lawyers' final pleas Tuesday in the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky, with a prosecutor casting him as the mastermind behind a vicious 2007 home invasion that ripped apart a Connecticut family while the defense insisted "he did not want anyone to die."
The defense is expected to lay out its case Wednesday in the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, who is accused in the July 2007 home invasion, sexual assault and murders of three members of a Connecticut family.
CNN's Randi Kaye digs into the horrific home invasion in Connecticut and the two men police say were behind the rampage.
The father of a murdered Connecticut family testifies at trial for second suspect. CNN's Deb Feyerick reports.
The lone survivor of a deadly home invasion wrapped up his testimony Tuesday afternoon after taking the stand against the second man charged with brutally killing his wife and two daughters.
Dr. William Petit, the sole survivor of the grisly 2007 break-in, is due to take the stand Tuesday
Witnesses began describing the final moments of and futile attempts to save a Connecticut mother and her two daughters inside their burning home, opening the trial Monday for one of the men who authorities claim is responsible for their murders.
Jurors from the Steven Hayes murder trial still have nightmares about the images and details. CNN's Susan Candiotti reports.
"A calculated, cold-blooded predator." That was how Connecticut Judge James Bentivegna described a then 22-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky on December 20, 2002, when the defendant was sentenced after being convicted on 12 counts of burglary.
A close friend of a woman who was killed -- along with her two daughters -- during a 2007 home invasion said she hopes that an upcoming trial gives a feeling of peace and justice for residents of the quiet Connecticut town where the incident occurred.
The murder trial of a second Connecticut man accused of killing a mother and two daughters during a 2007 home invasion will start Monday, despite a request from defense attorneys to move the trial.
Jury selection began Wednesday in the murder trial of a second Connecticut man accused of killing a mother and two daughters during a 2007 home invasion.
The second man to be tried for a deadly home invasion in Connecticut has asked a court to accept a guilty plea on the condition he would be spared the death penalty.
A Connecticut man will go on trial for murder not far from where a mother and two daughters were killed in a 2007 home invasion, after a judge on Monday denied the defendant's bid to move the proceedings.
Jury selection will begin in March for the second man charged in a brutal 2007 home invasion in which a Connecticut mother and her two daughters were killed.
Jurors who convicted a man of three murders in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion and recommended he be put to death for his crimes said Tuesday that serving on the case changed their lives -- and took an emotional and sometimes physical toll.
Jurors in Connecticut deliberated throughout the day Sunday to determine whether to sentence to death a man convicted of killing two sisters and their mother in a brutal 2007 home invasion.
Steven Hayes, convicted of killing three members of a Connecticut family, has shown "suicidal tendencies" and expressed concern his food was tainted, a psychiatrist testified during the penalty phase of Hayes' trial Monday.
A man convicted of capital murder in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion has attempted suicide several times since his arrest and has said he wants to receive the death penalty, a forensic psychiatrist testified Wednesday.
A court clerk at the trial of Steven Hayes, who was convicted of capital murder in a 2007 Connecticut home invasion, read Tuesday from writings of Hayes' alleged accomplice describing the incident in graphic detail.
A man convicted of killing a mother and her two daughters during a 2007 Connecticut home invasion can be "quite likable," but has struggled with drug addiction for years, a defense attorney told jurors Monday.
The prosecution will pursue the death penalty in the Petit family home invasion trial. In Session's Ryan Smith reports.
For three weeks, Dr. William Petit went to a courtroom and re-lived the day he was attacked and his wife and daughters were killed in their Connecticut home.
Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky first crossed paths at a Hartford, Connecticut, drug treatment center in the summer of 2006, according to police.
A jury found Steven Hayes guilty of 16 of 17 charges in connection to the deaths of a woman and her two daughters.
After deliberating for about four hours over two days, a jury Tuesday convicted a 47-year-old man of capital murder in the deaths of three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
Jurors are expected to resume their deliberations Tuesday morning in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
Closing arguments were made in the Connecticut murder trial. CNN's Randi Kaye takes a closer look at the home invasion case.
Closing arguments were made Friday in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion.
A home invasion case that left a wife and her two daughters dead is about to go to the jury in Connecticut.
Testimony in the trial of Steven Hayes, the man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion, ended Tuesday.
CNN "AC360's" Randi Kaye reports on what happened on the morning of a home invasion that left a family dead.
An accelerant appears to have been poured on or near two girls as they lay tied up in their beds in their Connecticut home when home invaders set it afire more than three years ago, an investigator told jurors Friday.
CNN "AC360's" Randi Kaye reports on the emotional day in the trial of the Connecticut home invasion suspects.
The trial of a man accused of killing three members of a Connecticut family in a 2007 home invasion will continue Thursday with testimony from the state's chief medical examiner.
One of the men accused of killing the wife and children of a Connecticut doctor in a 2007 home invasion told police, "Things just got out of control," his arresting officer testified Wednesday.
"It has been a long and painful process," say Dr. William Petit and his family
The long-delayed trial of a man accused of killing a doctor's wife and her two daughters opened Monday with witnesses who told jurors Jennifer Hawke-Petit asked to withdraw $15,000 from the bank because she and her family were being held hostage at her home.
After months of jury selection and delays caused by the defendant's alleged suicide attempt, the triple murder case against Steven Hayes, one of two accused in the killing of a Connecticut physician's family, is set to begin Monday.
A man accused in a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion was back in prison Wednesday after being hospitalized earlier this week, delaying jury selection for his trial, according to a person who was in a court hearing.
A small, well-tended garden is all that remains at 300 Sorghum Mill Drive in this quiet town.
Jury selection in the case of a deadly 2007 Connecticut home invasion was postponed Monday because the suspect was hospitalized, his defense attorney said.
Murder suspects were roommates
Prosecutors in Connecticut say they will seek the death penalty for two men charged with killing three members of a prominent Cheshire, Connecticut, doctor's family during a gruesome home invasion.
A hostage who was being forced to withdraw money at her bank managed to tip off a teller to call police, authorities said, before she was found dead at her family home.
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