HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut inmate awaiting execution for his role in the killings of a former Slippery Rock woman and her two daughters says he is refusing to eat prison food that he believes is not kosher.

Steven Hayes sued the Department of Correction in August, alleging it would not serve him a kosher diet. He says the system is forcing him to “starve or go against God.”

Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky were sentenced to die for the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela during a July 2007 home invasion in Cheshire, Conn.

Hawke-Petit spent her elementary school years in Slippery Rock. Her parents, the Rev. Richard and Marybelle Hawke, still live in Slippery Rock.

In a handwritten amended complaint made public Wednesday, Hayes says he hasn’t eaten any nonkosher food since Aug. 24, and now weighs less than 120 pounds. State prison documents show the 5-foot-7 Hayes weighed 170 pounds in 2007.

The department offers kosher food, but Hayes contends it isn’t kosher because of cross-contamination.