Jury to rule on death penalty case

A CONNECTICUT jury is to hear arguments today on whether to execute a man who along with an alleged accomplice turned a smart suburban home into a house of horrors, murdering and incinerating a mother and her two girls.

The trial in New Haven, Connecticut, just outside New York, has horrified and gripped Americans.

Now defence attorneys are fighting for convicted murderer Steven Hayes’ life, even arguing that it would cost taxpayers less to keep him behind bars than to send him through the litigious process of death row.