called back, dn t worry, it will all be over in a minute. this was just after hayes returned home from hawke-petit from the bank and told her no one would be hurt if she withdrew $15,000. cross-examination today, aggressively so about how clear his memory is today after hearing previous courtroom testimony. now, the defendant s defense opened the trial yesterday by telling jurors it was hayes who escalated the violence in the petit home, that hayes is the one that poured the gasoline around the girls, the homes, the bed and lit the match and argued during the event repeatedly saying that hayes was the one that took off his gloves, spread his prints around and panicked and wanted to kill the family. petit says he only heard one voice throughout the ordeal. both defendants try today plead guilty in exchange for a
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what is amazing, this is very hard for jurors to give the death penalty in the state of connecticut, what they have been dealing with, first, we heard a lot about mitigating and aggravating factors, before the jurors could get to that point they had to first decide if steve hayes had the mental capacity, and again, that was what appeared to be the big holdup, and maybe a divide, is what it looked like, through the notes that were sent out over the weekend. we had heard even some applause from the deliberation room when they were struggling with that. so they clearly got over that one hump. then got on to the aggravating and mitigating factors. aggravating factors, of course, all of the horrible details of what took place inside of the petit home, july 23rd, 2007, the mitigating factors, the defense attorneys trying to convince jurors that steve hayes is a drug addict, guilt-ridden man who just couldn t control himself, who was under the influence of his coconspirator,
courthouse. what s the news? death on the very last verdict, jon. so now there are six death penalty verdicts in this case. the prosecution got a clean sweep. the last one we were waiting for was for the murder of a secy assaulted person, jennifer hawke-te hawke-petit. the judge expects the verdict, there will be no challenge from the unand it will be sent off, of course as we ve been mentioning and gregg can further explain, will go to automatic appeal in this case. very emotional scene inside of the courtroom right now as jurors are openly weeping as they are giving their verdict, at least a few of them, others are comforting the ones who are crying. dr. william petit is up there with his sister, with his parents, with the parents of jennifer hawke-t hawke-tpetit who have been so brave to sit through this trial to once again go over the gruesome and horrifying details of what happened that night inside the petit
the lone survivor, dr. william petit, back at the courthouse. what s going through your mind right now? just waiting to see what the jury decides. reporter: he s waited three years for this moment. it was 2007 when prosecutors say steven hayes and his cohort broke into the petit home, beat william and tied him up and tied the two girls to their bedposts upstairs and heard the moaning and thumps, he testified. the video saw jennifer petit s final moments at a bank withdrawing $15,000 to pay the ransom. and they heard the bank manager s chilli ining 911 call. we have a lady in our bank right now who says that her husband and children are being held at their house. if the police are told, they will kill the children and the husband. reporter: prosecutors say they sexually assaulted and strangled jennifer before burning the house down. this mother and her two girls were killed.