Resentencing hearings for the remainder of the death row inmates have yet to be scheduled. The majority in last year's landmark ruling essentially said it wouldn't be fair to execute the remaining death row inmates when lawmakers had determined the death penalty was no longer needed for future killers. Dannel P. Malloy and the Democrat-controlled legislature that abolished the death penalty for future cases. Steven Hayes is the first of 11 death row inmates to be resentenced since the state Supreme Court ruled in August that their sentences violated the state constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment and was out of step with contemporary standards of decency. Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were convicted of the murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit.

Source: ABC News June 15, 2016 20:09 UTC