entire time and we now have our fifth verdict in this case, count number 12, death penalty. death penalty for the murder of the kidnapped person, michaela, that is for the 11-year-old. we are almost done. five of six are now for the death penalty. it looks like they may possibly get a the next verdict we are going to hear is for the murder of a sexually assaulted person, that, of course, we know, for, in this case, was stevens hayes, is jennifer hawke-petit. this has just been such a difficult time for their family. we ve been watching the family members come here, dr. william petit, the lone survivor of this invasion was here each an every day, he s had his parents with him, the parents of jennifer hawke-peti have been here as well and jennifer hawke sister, she s been here every single day, she had to
verdict for the murder of a kidnapped person, that is count number ten, that is for the murder of jennifer hawk petit, the mother. we now have three death penalty verdicts in this case. once again, we have the jurors that are going through their forms, and i want to bring you a little color from inside the courtroom that we are getting from a producer up there, cries rible, no statutory mitigator mitigators, yes to the aggravators, they weighed this as a death appropriate punishment, that mitigator, that means on count four, five and ten, murder of two or more persons, murder of a person under the age of 16, michaela pettitte, jennifer, they believe that stephen hayes had his full mental capacity, they believe that he had the choice to conform to the letter of the law, and he didn t. those are the statutory mitigators that they had to make clear before they could move on to what we just
get more rights being on death row and we all know how long it might take to execute him. patti ann: doug burns, thank you very much. my pleasure. jon: of course the possibility exists that he could go in prison and die in prison before this thing is appealed out and before the death penalty is ever carried out, but stevens hayes, to wrap it up, steven hayes, sentenced to die on six separate counts that were lodged against him in the murders of jennifer hawke-petit and their daughters, haley and michaela. we ll be back in a moment. [ male announcer ] gout s root cause is high uric acid.
with the result of haley petit, the 17-year-old in this case. four death penalty verdicts, the jurors we are told in the courtroom, two of them are crying, this has been an emotional case for everybody. certainly, the families. but obviously, we ve been talking about this jury is on the fourth delay of deliberation, what they had been through in that deliberation room, trying to decide on the appropriate punishment for this case. jurors are crying, the other jurors are comforting them and we roll on and we wait for the fifth verdict in this case, the next one is going to be on the murder of a kidnapped person. that will be for michaela, the 11-year-old, that is the next verdict you will hear about. patti ann: quick question, you mentioned jurors crying. do they say anything about the reaction of william petit? no reaction on william petit. we will ask him. i will tell you, throughout the penalty phase, throughout the wait, we have been told that dr. william petit has been stoic the
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