What is Digg?489 Comments
- mandarin, on 10/10/2007, -9/+137Really bad. I think this calls for the death penalty.
- skored, on 10/10/2007, -0/+95I come across a lot of bad stories each day but this is one of the worst. I just hope that somehow these two guys get the same treatment in prison as they gave this family - hopefully much worse.
- Niallgriff, on 10/10/2007, -4/+92I live in CT, Cheshire is about 3 miles from my house, its a nice quiet town. This is completely unbelievable and such a terrible thing to happen to someone, I can't imagine the restraint it took the cops not to shoot the ***** when they arrested them.
I hope they string these ***** up by the balls. - thore, on 10/10/2007, -2/+65Those two yahoos had a past criminal record and were on parole. Time to fix the judicial system.
- jtingley, on 10/10/2007, -17/+78This could have been prevented. Stories like this should read - "Famous Doctor shoots and kills 2 men attempting to invade his Home."
This is a terrible tragedy and I could not imagine the level to which this man is suffering. All the same it should serve as a wakeup call to people. These things can happen to anyone anywhere. Better armed then dead I always say.
p.s. I hope the guys who did this are fried to a crisp. - Lososaurus, on 10/10/2007, -8/+62I've tried to stand by the idea of not letting my person views or beliefs interfering with other people's lives, it's the reason that I'm pro-choice --who am I to force a woman to have a child. Now here's the thing, I consider the death penalty interfering with someone's life to the greatest degree and maybe I'm overblowing it all, but the concept of ending a life is something I can't wrap my head around. The problem though is what gives me or us or the state the right to say it's OK to end a criminal's life, but then again what gave them the right to end someone else's life? There's something so primitive about executing criminals, but at the same time, it almost seems like the only way to atone for murder. It's situations like this one in the story that make me pro-death penalty, but my idea of not letting my personal views or beliefs interfere with other's lives(in the form of the law) make me anti-death penalty.
Though, I do have to say, while I try and stand by that one belief, if someone close to me was murdered, I'd be the first to flip the switch or pull the trigger on the criminal who did so; It's that thought that makes me lean towards the death penalty because I wouldn't want someone defending the life of someone who murdered someone close to me, so at the same time, I don't want to do that to someone who has suffered a loss.
With these thoughts finally typed out, I'm going to say, pro-death penalty and I truly hope these two men get the death penalty. - heyitsgarrett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+39"Komisarjevsky is charged with one count of first-degree assault, first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping.
Hayes is charged with one count of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson, conspiracy to commit arson in the first-degree, first-degree robbery and risk of injury to a minor, plus two counts of first-degree larceny and four counts of first-degree kidnapping."
What about first-degree murder? Am I missing something? - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38The effect this will have on the father/husband is even worse, if he survives, than anything these 2 guys will get in prison. He will live the rest of his life knowing that he could not protect his wife and 2 daughters..the #1 thing a father should (according to our society's standards) do. It's sad but I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up either comitting suicide or falling so deep into depression that he loses the sanity he has left.
All of this for $15k. - Junkyarddawg, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39Does connecticut have death penalty?
If it does, it's a pretty done deal that these guys get it.
And, let's face it, they've richly deserved it. Their deaths will make the world a better, safer, place. - camintmier, on 10/10/2007, -3/+34Pardon me for being stupid, but does anyone know what the doctor was famous for? (Only asking because I don't know).
As far as the criminals go, I don't think they should get the electric chair, or the gas chamber. I think they should have exactly what they did done right back to them. Tie'em to a chair, and torch the building they're in. Let them die as they have killed... - kbull, on 10/10/2007, -0/+31As sad as this story is, it's a goddamn miracle these ***** ***** got caught before they could get away.
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -4/+35What's that gonna do? With the death penalty you die quickly and painlessly. That's too good for these *****.
- miriclaire, on 10/10/2007, -7/+33I think it calls for some old-fashioned Biblical wisdom: an eye for an eye. Ram a pole up their arses and burn those ***** alive.
I used to be such a pacifist. But that's when I was ignorant. The anger in me makes me sick when I think about such vile beings we call part of the human race. If there was ever a case for public hanging its this. - lburgguy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+31My Colt .45 and I volunteer to take them out back and send them to their maker.
- ribbleninja, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27We had to make room for all of the people in jail who get locked up for smoking some weed.
- moracity, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28What's really sad and disturbing is that these scumbags will spend the rest of their lives sheltered and fed by the American taxpayer. There is no way they will get executed by CT. The best we can hope for is that some other scumbag in prison will do the job for us.
- uppercut, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23SICK BASTARDS. These guys aren't human. Poor doctor lost his whole family. These walking diseases need to be erased from the planet.
- yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26Connecticut has a death penalty, but they've only executed one person since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume. Hopefully this becomes three people in the near future.
- kooft, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24These guys were given a chance (parole). They're all adults and have the ability to make well informed decisions. These guys knew that CT has the death penalty, but they went and committed one of the most heinous crimes in recent memory. Give them a fair trial and if they're found guilty, then uphold the law.
- Infantrydude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23"Career criminals" and "recent parolees" the only failure here was that they were let out in the first place. Time to get serious about removing the scum from of society or this will just happen again and again.
- kooft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+20According to this site: http://www.cga.ct.gov/2005/rpt/2005-R-0136.htm you need to fulfill at least one of eight conditions to qualify for the death penalty. From my reckoning these guys fulfill at least four of the eight conditions (maybe more depending on the reasons for their previous incarceration).
- manicleek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18They were caught at the scene!!
- AlphaEta, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20I believe a Vlad-style impalement is in order. Sans grease.
- yargthepirate, on 10/10/2007, -5/+23I don't care what Jesus would want, these ***** don't deserve the air they breathe.
- theaterman, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Another reason to have a gun in your house and know how to use it well. I hope CT has the death penalty, but it would be way too good for either of those two.
- kooft, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Well, if you're going to go to those extents to put criminals to death, might as well film it and show it to parolee's as they're released back into society.
- tektalk, on 10/10/2007, -5/+21I really think these two bastards don't deserve to have any more joy in their lives. They should be locked in separate concrete cells, get their hands cut off, their eyes poked out and left for dead in death valley all the while with an open bleeding wound reaching from their left ankle up to their right shoulder.
Call me sadistic, cruel or maniacal, but if you ever realized two bastards killed the love of your life and your two cherished daughters whom you've spent so much time to bringing them up.Wouldn't you want to do something as evil as this or worse? - skored, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Perhaps famous wasn't the best term to use - b/c he was really only famous in medical circles. A better description was that he is a renowned diabetes specialist. Here's a pretty good rundown:
"Dr. William Petit Jr. is a prominent endocrinologist and diabetes specialist, the president of the Hartford County Medical Association, and the medical director of the Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at The Hospital of Central Connecticut in New Britain."
Source: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2007/07/24.html - Gryffydd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15They way I look at it, people relinquish all rights to life when they commit an atrocity like this. They voluntarily and willfully gave up their right to continue to exist. The rest is just paperwork.
- zengonzo, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17Do you know for sure that the doctor didn't own a gun?
- amra51, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14You shouldn't look at it as punishment. You should view executing guys like this in the same way as putting down a rabid dog. You don't do it because you hate the dog, (whether you do or not is irrelevant) you do it because it is a danger to society, and is going to continue to be a menace to society until it is dead. Same with these two. Now this is just my opinion - but when someone does something as horrible as that, they forfeit their "human-ness" they are just rabid dogs that need to be put down.
- SharkMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15more proof, parolees need a tracking system imbedded into them.
- misterjangles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13This story is almost identical to "In Cold Blood." It's just impossible for me to imagine how anybody can be so heartless and cruel. There truly are some people in this world who are just evil. Unbelievable. I wonder if they feel the slightest remorse about anything?
- switchflare, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12I think the death penalty is going easy on them...since the execution must be 'humane'. These losers will never feel the pain of what they have done. They obviously aren't phased by incarceration, so either way...they get off easy.
- Chizzibah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Oh jeez. I knew these people. I attend college the next town over. I've met them a couple of times. This is a HUGE shock. This is so sad :(
- ICSU, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11You need to use /sarcasm here.
Many people don't get it. - Patrickson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11They had to wait for the coroner to prove they died due to homicide. They are likely to charge them with murder today.
- GrayV, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12This is so sad. It struck me half way through reading the story that this was a real experience for those poor people, a day long nightmare that they had no choice to endure, completely out of the blue. And the father will now have to live with the memory of it.
Worst of all, there's no way of correcting the balance now, nothing the two that did this can say or do or have done to them that will come anywherer near equalling the wrongs that they committed.
I find it very saddening. - jsd8cc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Precisely. They should be put in a labor camp so brutal they will wish we had killed them. Subhumans.
- OverkillTASF, on 10/10/2007, -5/+16The usual reaction: "Wow, how unthinkable and tragic!"
The kind of people who flip out when they find out you carry a gun everywhere, saying "Why on Earth do you have a gun? This place is safe!" are the same ones who won't give a moment of thought to what they would do if they were "unexpectedly" thrust into the situation this family was in. Apparently crime is bad enough that we need to repeal the civil right to keep and bear arms, but not so bad that people can fathom why all sane and sound minded individuals have a duty to take responsibility for their own self-defense.
The proper reaction: "What if this happened where I am, right now? How could I be prepared for this?" or even better, "What if I had been there with my gun? What could I have done? How could things have been different?" - Patrickson, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14What they did to the two daughters is sickening, especially the little girl. Sadism seems to be the ultimate motive: both males, at least, raped one girl (I am all but certain they raped both) and burned both girls alive; they chose slow, agonizing methods of torture and death to inflict as much terror as possible. Nothing that could be done to them could adequately be called justice. All one can do is ensure they are never allowed to harm again.
I keep asking myself: If the police acted immediately once notified by the bank teller how did the mother (who was taken to the bank) still end up dead? Did the bank not call 911 quickly enough? Also: Why couldn't a family member use their cell phone to call the police before or during the break-in? - JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14Two "scums"?
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11I'm not saying it isn't a good word, but I've never heard it used like it is in the title. Just thought it was strange.
- slimasian, on 10/10/2007, -6/+16Dear God, pray for this poor guy and his family...there are no words for this heinous act...completely unforgivable and I hope justice will be served for this family.
- HypocriteDigg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9And why are they not charged with murder?
- HypocriteDigg, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14And just think, a lot of neocon fascists will try to use this event to bash liberals.
- RST1123, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Death to them.
- JD52, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Nothing short of a public burning at the stake, ala Joan of Arc, would be adequate justice for these two.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+14As long as people like this exist, there will be a need for things like the death penalty, and in my opinion: worse - torture or disfigurement. Death is too easy a way out for people like this. They know better, and they ought to live with the agony they've inflicted upon the relatives of this family instead of getting to rot in a nice American prison or die a painless death. ****** these guys.*
- jeffg8788, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8My dad knows Dr. Petit personally and the honest truth is everybody loves the man. Being a diabetes specialist, when the insulin pump first came out he installed it on himself to make sure it was safe before he issued it out to any of his patients. I live in Southington which is the next town over from Cheshire and almost every person I talked to knew who Dr. Petit was before this tragedy. I guess I would say he is pretty famous in this state at least.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 475 discussions
The Digg Toolbar for Firefox lets you Digg, submit content, and keep track of Digg even when you're not on the Digg site. Download the official 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is