NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A Connecticut jury is deliberating for a second day on whether a man convicted of killing a former Slippery Rock woman and her two daughters in a brutal home invasion should get the death penalty or life in prison.

The jury deliberated less than two hours Monday afternoon without reaching a verdict in the sentencing phase of Joshua Komisarjevsky’s trial in New Haven Superior Court. They continued their discussions today.

Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes were convicted of killing Jennifer Hawke-Petit and daughters, Hayley and Michaela, at their Cheshire home in 2007. Hayes is on death row.

“It’s just a long wait. It’s a hard wait,” said William Petit Sr., whose granddaughters and daughter-in-law were killed. “By the same token, we know it’s very close to being over.”

Hawke-Petit spent part of her childhood in Slippery Rock, where her parents now live.