Cheshire Killers Steven Hayes, Joshua Komisarjevsky Transferred Out of Connecticut

CHESHIRE, CT — Convicted Cheshire killers Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky have been transferred out of Connecticut and into a maximum security facility in the Pennsylvania prison system, according to multiple reports.

The men were recently resentenced to six consecutive life sentences without the chance for parole after the state Supreme Court ruled last August that the death penalty violates the state’s constitution and barred all executions.

The Hartford Courant reports that both Hayes and Komisarjevsky will be housed out of state for an indefinite period of time.

The transfers were part of the Interstate Corrections Compact in which participating States Departments’ of Corrections agree to accept inmates from each other for reasons of safety and security, according to NBC Connecticut.

Hayes and Komisarjevsky were both convicted, in separate trials, with felony murder and sentenced to death for the 2007 home invasion killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17.

State lawmakers got rid of the death penalty in 2012, but made it so that inmates already on death row would be executed. The provision was added after the trials of Hayes and Komisarjevsky, but last year’s ruling banned all executions with no exceptions.

Hayes officially dropped his appeal for a new trial earlier this month, telling a Superior Court judge that “I’m guilty,” according to the New Haven Register.

Hayes told Judge Jon C. Blue that he “played a part” in the 2007 triple homicide home invasion and all that would be accomplished in a second trial would be arguments over who did what between him and Joshua Komisarjevsky, which would be “petty” on his part, according to the Register.

Komisarjevsky is continuing his pursuit of a new trial.

Read more about the prison transfers at the Harford Courant here and NBC Connecticut here.

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