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A jury decided Joshua Komisarjevsky should be sentenced to death on Dec. 9, 2011. This photo was provided by the Dept. of Correction on March 16, 2011

A jury decided Dec. 9, 2011 that Joshua Komisarjevsky should be sentenced to death for the Cheshire home invasion murders. This photo was provided by the Dept. of Correction on March 16, 2011.

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Steven Hayes, sentenced to death by a jury on Nov. 8, 2010, for killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley Petit and Michaela Petit in the July, 2007 Cheshire home invasion.

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Lazale Ashby was sentenced to death on 3/28/2008. Ashby was sentenced to death for the December, 2002 rape and murder of his neighbor Elizabeth Garcia.

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Russell Peeler Peeler was sentenced to death on 12/10/2007 for ordering the murders of Leroy "B.J." Brown and his mother Karen Clarke. Brown, who was 8, was killed before he was to testify against Peeler.

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Jesse Campbell III was sentenced to death on 8/16/2007. Campbell was convicted of murder and attempted murder in the August, 2000 execution style murders of 20-year-old LaTaysha Logan, 18-year-old Desiree Privette, and the shooting of …

Eduardo Santiago

Eduardo Santiago sentenced to death on Jan. 31, 2005. He was was convicted in the murder-for-hire death of Joseph Niwinksi of West Hartford in 2000.

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Todd Rizzo was initially sentenced to death row 8/13/99 after he killed 13-year-old Stanley Edwards of Waterbury, who was struck repeatedly with a sledgehammer. After a new penalty phase, he was sentenced to death a second time on 6/23/05.

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Richard Reynolds was sentenced to death on 04/13/1995. He was convicted of killing Waterbury police Officer Walter T. Williams in 1992. (Sentence on appeal.)

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Daniel Webb was sentenced to death on 09/12/1991 for Capital Felony. He was convicted of killing bank executive of Diane Gellenbeck in 1989 in Hartford.

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Sedrick Cobb was sentenced to death on 08/13/1991. He kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed Julia Ashe of Watertown in 1989.

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Robert Breton of Waterbury was sentenced to death on 10/27/1989 for the murders of his 38-year-old ex-wife and their 16-year-old son in Waterbury in 1987.

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Connecticut Death Row Inmates

Updated: Monday, 04 Jun 2012, 11:08 AM EDT

    (WTNH) - Connecticut's Death Row Inmates as of Oct., 2010. The inmates are housed at Northern Correctional Institution in Somers.

    Lazale Ashby

    Ashby was sentenced to death for the December, 2002 rape and murder of his neighbor Elizabeth Garcia.

    Robert Breton

    Breton was convicted of killing of his 38-year-old ex-wife and their 16-year-old son in Waterbury in 1987.

    Jessie Campbell III

    Campbell was convicted of murder and attempted murder in the August, 2000 shooting deaths of 20-year-old LaTaysha Logan, 18-year-old Desiree Privette, and the shooting of Privette's aunt Carolyn Privette.

    Sedrick "Ricky" Cobb

    Cobb was convicted of kidnapping, murder and sexual assault against Julia Ashe of Watertown in 1989.

    Robert Courchesne

    Courchesne was sentenced to death for killing Demetris Rodgers and her baby in 1998. Rodgers was pregnant at the time she was stabbed to death. The baby Antonia was delivered, but was pronounced dead weeks later.

    His conviction in the death of Antonia was overturned in June, 2010.

    Steven Hayes

    On Nov. 8, 2010, a jury found Hayes should be executed for killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley Petit and Michaela Petit in the July, 2007, Cheshire home invasion killings.

    Joshua Komisarjevsky

    On Dec. 9, 2011, a jury ruled Komisarjevsky should be executed for the 2007 Cheshire home invasion murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit, Hayley Petit and Michaela Petit.

    Russell Peeler

    Peeler was sentenced to death for the murders of Leroy "B.J." Brown and his mother Karen Clarke. Brown, who was 8, was killed before he was to testify against Peeler in a drug-related trial.

    Richard Reynolds

    Reynolds was convicted of murdering murder of Waterbury police Officer Walter T. Williams in 1992.

    Todd Rizzo

    Rizzo got the death sentence for the 1997 murder 13-year-old Stanley Edwards, who was struck repeatedly with a sledgehammer.

    Eduardo Santiago

    Santiago was convicted in the 2000 murder-for-hire death of Joseph Niwinksi.

    Daniel Webb

    Webb was convicted of kidnap and murder for the 1989 slaying of Diane Gellenbeck.

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