One of the two men resonsible for the gruesome Cheshire murders was found unresponsive in his prison cell on Monday, the New York Daily News reported.
Authorities noticed that Steven Hayes, 50, was unresponsive while doing their routine check at the Northern Correctional Institute in Connecticut around 9:35 a.m.
According to the Daily News, officials were able to revive Hayes, who is currently on death row. Prison officials would not say if Hayes attempted suicide or if he suffered from a separate medical condition.
The Connecticut Department of Corrections said Hayes is in stable condition at a local hospital. The incident is currently under investigation.
On July 23, 2007, Hayes and his accomplice, 33-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky, followed Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and her two daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, to their home to rob them.
However, the terrifying home invasion led to both men raping Hawke-Petit and Michaela, who Hayes strangled. They then tied the girls up, covered the house in gasoline, and lit the home on fire.
The only survivor of the ordeal was husband and father Dr. William Petit, who was able to escape from the prison basement before dying of smoke inhalation.
Both men were convicted and sentenced to death.
Though the death penalty was repealed in the state in 2012, people convicted previously of the death penalty will still be executed.
Hayes told the New Haven Register in September that he paces his prison cell with "guilt, shame, and remorse."
"It's in my head all day and all night," he told the local paper. "I'll never forgive myself for that."
