美國康涅狄格州廢除死刑 該千刀萬剮的人竟然不死!
The Connecticut man who lost his wife and daughters in a brutal home invasion in 2007 said it was 'sad' one of the killers had his death sentence revoked to comply with new state laws.
美國康涅狄格州一名男子在2007年因一場殘忍的入室行兇案失去了他的妻子和女兒。然而，由於該州新法律的實行，其中一名兇手得以免除了死刑，對此，這名男子表示這很“可悲”。Dr. William Petit was tied up in the basement of his New Haven home during the July 23, 2007 attack and almost beaten to death. He could only listen as his wife was raped and murdered by Steven Hayes. Petit managed to flee to a neighbor's home as his daughters perished in the fire Hayes lit.
在2007年7月23日，威廉·皮蒂特博士被捆綁在他位於紐黑文家中的地下室裏，行兇者攻擊了他，並幾乎將他毆打致死。他的妻子被斯蒂芬·海耶斯姦殺了，而他卻只能在一旁聽着聲響，無能爲力。海耶斯放火燒死了他的女兒，而他設法逃往了鄰居家，並最終獲救。'It is a very sad day when a prolonged trial and decision and sentencing by a jury that took 4.5 months to seat is overturned by a legislature that ignores the wishes of the people of CT,' he said in a text message via Twitter.
近日，威廉在推特上發表了一份文本信息，他說道：“這真是可悲的一天，陪審團耗費了4個半月的時間來進行審理、定奪和判決，但是卻被一個立法機關輕易地推翻了，它無視了康涅狄格州人民的願望。”
He added: 'The insult is compounded by a Supreme Court that rules on not one but 2 cases based on personal opinions and politics and not the law.'
他補充說道：“最高法院加劇了這一侮辱，在兩起案件中，最高法院的審理都被個人意見和政治所左右，而不是立足於法律。”
Hayes was sentenced to death in 2010 after being convicted of murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and 13 other counts. Co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky was also sentenced to death in 2011.
海耶斯在2010年的時候曾被判死刑，他被控犯有謀殺罪、一級綁架罪、一級性侵罪以及其他13項罪名。共同被告人約書亞·科米薩耶夫斯基在2011年的時候也被判處死刑。But in 2012 the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal capital punishment, stopping it from being handed out in future cases.
但是在2012年，康涅狄格州衆議院投票廢除了死刑，在以後的案件中犯人都不會被處死。Originally, the 11 people on death row - including Hayes and Komisarjevsky - were still to face execution. But in August last year that was deemed to be 'cruel and unusual punishment' and their death sentences were commuted.
原本包括海耶斯和科米薩耶夫斯基在內的11名死刑犯仍然將會被處刑。但是在去年8月份的時候，人們認爲死刑是“殘酷的、不尋常的懲罰”，因此這些人獲得了減刑，不再被處死。Petit and his family declined to make a statement in court, saying they had already said what needed to be said during the trial, as did Hayes and his public defender Thomas Ullmann.
皮蒂特和他的家人拒絕在法庭上做出聲明，他們表示，在法庭上需要說的話已經說完了，就如同海耶斯和他的公設辯護人托馬斯·厄爾曼所做的那樣，He then handed down six consecutive sentences of life without possibility of parole, followed by a total of 106 years for Hayes's crimes.
最終，法官對海耶斯下達了六項連續有期徒刑判決，並且不準假釋，海耶斯將爲其所犯下的罪過承擔106年有期徒刑的懲罰。
