USA - Connecticut. At the end of the repetition of the trial, a jury has sentenced Richard Roszkowski to death.

At the end of the repetition of the trial, a Fairfield County jury has sentenced Richard Roszkowski, 48, White, to death. In May 2009 a Bridgeport jury found Roszkowski guilty of the Sept. 7, 2006, shooting deaths of 39-year-old Holly Flannery, her daughter, Kylie, 9, and 38-year-old Thomas Gaudet. Although the same jury that convicted Roszkowski of the crime subsequently found he should get the death penalty (see July 15, 2009), the verdict was overturned because of a jury instruction error and a new penalty hearing was ordered (see October 16, 2009). The new penalty phase began Jan. 7. Roszkowski's lawyers did not deny he killed the victims but presented medical experts who testified Roszkowski has brain damage caused by earlier car crashes, hepatitis and long-term drug use. Connecticut abolished the death penalty in 2012, but only for future murders. A few months ago (see Dec. 8, 2013) the government of the Republic of Poland notified Gov. Malloy and the Chief State's Attorney Kevin Kane that it objects to Richard Roszkowski -whose parents were Polish - getting the death penalty.