SOMERS, Conn. (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) — Joshua Komisarjevsky will spend the rest of his life in prison, but he says he doesn't spend any of that time thinking about the 2007 attack on a Connecticut family.
In his first interview since his conviction, the 31-year-old death row inmate says he has no remorse.
Komisarjevsky and co-defendant Steven Hayes were convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters.
Hayes raped and strangled Jennifer. Komisarjevsky sexually assaulted 11-year-old Michela, who later died with her 17-year old sister, Hayley, of smoke inhalation. Their father, William Petit was beaten, but managed to escape.
But Komisarjevsky has nothing to say to the sole survivor of the attack, and said only "I guess my reaction is not the reaction society expected."
Komisarjevsky, who is a father himself, was described as jovial and introspective during the Associated Press interview, although he admitted to packing on 30 or 40 pounds due to depression and a lack of movement. He says "it's a surreal experience to be judged so worthless that society wants you dead."
Komisarjevsky says he believes the only way he will die through capital punishment is to volunteer for lethal injection. And while he says he considers it, he also says volunteering would "hurt those who stand behind me."
William Petit declined to comment on the interview, but in the time since the murders, he has started the Petit Family Foundation, which supports education, those fighting chronic illness, and protects those affected by violence.
Earlier this year, he became engaged to a photographer who works with the organization.
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