http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/28/nyregion/28slay.html?ex=1343275200&en=11d7fb6ba91590a4&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss
Death Penalty Bid in 3 Killings Draws Critics

By STACEY STOWE
Published: July 28, 2007
NEW HAVEN, July 27 — In more than 25 years as a prosecutor, Michael Dearington had sought the death penalty only once. This week, he did it twice, filing capital charges against the two suspects in the killings of a mother and her two daughters in a Cheshire home.
“I thought it was important with respect to the family, the public and law enforcement,” Mr. Dearington, the state’s attorney for the judicial district of New Haven, said in an interview on Friday, while declining to discuss the case in any detail. “I seek capital charges when they are warranted. It’s as simple as that.”
His decision to seek capital punishment for the two suspects, ...