Convicted Cheshire Killer Steven Hayes Receives New Sentence

New Haven, CT — Convicted Cheshire killer Steven Hayes became the first death row inmate in the state to be re-sentenced when he received six consecutive life sentences without the chance for parole on Wednesday, according to the Hartford Courant.

The Courant reports all 11 death row inmates will eventually be re-sentenced after the state Supreme Court ruled last August that the death penalty violates the state’s constitution and barred all executions.

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Hayes and Joshua 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.

The Courant reports Komisarjevsky was expected to be re-sentenced on Friday but the hearing has been postponed.

Read more at the Hartford Courant here.