Jury to deliberate in Conn. home invasion case

[November 06, 2010]  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut jury will begin a second day of deliberations to determine if a man convicted in a deadly home invasion should get the death penalty or life in prison.

The jury will resume weighing Steven Hayes' fate Saturday morning.

Hayes was convicted last month of killing a Cheshire woman and her two daughters in 2007.

Hayes' attorney told the jury Thursday a life sentence would actually be harsher than death, because his client is so haunted by the crime and isolated in prison.

Prosecutors said the crime cries out for the death penalty, because Hayes and his co-defendant, Joshua Komisarjevsky (koh-mih-sar-JEV'-skee), tormented the family for seven hours before they were killed.

Komisarjevsky awaits trial.

[Associated Press]

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