Here is the jury's decision to find no mitigating factors in the 2007 murder of Michaela Petit. The jury also found that the prosecution did prove aggravating factors in the slaying during the Cheshire home invasion.

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The jury's verdict on sentence in the murder of Hayley Petit

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This is a copy of the jury's verdict in this count.

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This document reflects the jury's verdict in this charge.
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Here are some of the more recent motions filed in the Joshua Komisarjevsky case. Stay with @nhrlive on Twitter as the jury deliberates this week on whether he will get the death penalty or life in prison.
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The state and the defense on Tuesday rested their cases in  the penalty phase of the Joshua Komisarjevsky case. This document shows what the defense claims are the "mitigating factors" as they try to convince the jury to give the defendent life in prison rather than the death penalty.

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In a document submitted at Superior Court in New Haven in the penalty phase of the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, he signs saying a child is his.


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This is the statement Joshua Komisarjevsky read during his attempt to prevent a video of his 9-year-old daughter being shown to jurors and heard by the public. Judge Jon C. Blue denied Komisarjevsky's request.
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These are some of the documents the Joshua Komisarjevsky defense team submitted this week

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Jurors considering whether Joshua Komisarjevsky should be executed for the 2007 Cheshire triple homicide or spend his life in prison listened to testimony from an expert on religion Tuesday and viewed part of a documentary on a Pentecostal summer camp for children. Here's a clip from the 2007 documentary, "Jesus Camp":



The defense team is trying to convince jurors that Komisarjevsky’s unorthodox upbringing, combined with the alleged sexual abuse he suffered as a child, is a mitigating factor.

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