Connecticut Rapist/Murderer Gets Death Sentence
In the closest thing to justice attainable under our laws, Steven Hayes has been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a Connecticut woman and the murder of her two teenage daughters (at least one of which was raped by his accomplice). True justice would demand more, but we cannot exact the kind of cruel and vicious punishment he dealt to his victims.
“I am deeply sorry for what I have done and the pain I have caused,” Hayes told the judge. “My actions have hurt so many people, affected so many lives and caused so much pain. I am tormented and have nightmares about what happened in that house.”
You are “tormented and have nightmares?” How about the surviving husband and father, who lives daily with the horrible knowledge of the details of the rape, forcible ingestion of bleach, and burning of his wife and daughters by Hayes and his accomplice? Your “sorrow” and “torment” are incomparable to his—and you deserve them; he does not.
What’s truly sad is the response of Hayes’ defense attorney:
“Today when the court sentences Steven Hayes to death, everyone becomes a killer,” Ullmann said. “We all become Steven Hayes.”
No, sir, we do not. Hayes is a psychopathic, degenerate scumbag who deserves far worse than he will get. His death will be relatively peaceful and quiet, not screaming in terror and pain as the cretin who just raped him strangles him or ties him to a bed and lights him on fire. No, we do not become Steven Hayes. By sentencing him to death we mete out the only fitting punishment available for a beast who does not deserve the gift of life.