Joshua Komisarjevsky was formally sentenced to death on Friday and one of the jurors who found him guilty of killing a mother and her two daughters in Cheshire in 2007 said the decision was difficult for him.
“Although I did make the decision, I feel like a hypocrite, I really do. I feel bad that I had to make that decision based on his life,” Timothy Anderson said.
Anderson said he has thought more and more about the decision he and the other jurors had to make and doesn’t believe that the death sentence was his to give.
“I felt differently when I had to make my verdict actually, because, I’m saying, when you have to make a decision based on someone else’s life, it’s really not right. It’s inhumane,” Anderson said.
Tashana Milton, however, said she tried to remain confident that the decision was the right one because the crime was so heinous.
“I do believe, if there was any crime that deserved the death penalty, it would be this,” she said.
Before the formal sentence was handed down, Komisarjevsky made a statement in court. One of his comments was that he is his own worst enemy.
“I do believe, as he said, that he is his own worst enemy. He’s caused a lot of unnecessary things on himself. I don’t believe that he ever had the proper help, guidance (and) nourishment that the needed to have the proper outcome,” Milton said. “At some point, we’re responsible for our own actions and you can’t always get away with such things. It’s time he’s facing the consequences.”
The execution date is set for July, pending appeals.
