Convicted Cheshire Killer Joshua Komisarjevsky Receives New Sentence

CHESHIRE, CT — Convicted Cheshire killer Joshua Komisarjevsky was resentenced on Tuesday, receiving six consecutive life sentences and 140 years without the chance for parole, according to the New Haven Register.

Komisarjevsky became the third death row inmate to have his sentence changed after the state Supreme Court ruled last August that the death penalty violates the state’s constitution and barred all executions.

Steven Hayes, the other man convicted and sentenced to death for the 2007 home invasion killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and Michaela, 11, and Hayley, 17, was the first death row inmate to be resentenced and also received six consecutive life sentences last month.

Hayes also recently withdrew the appeal of his conviction and said he would accept life in prison.

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.

Read more at the New Haven Register here.