New Haven , Connecticut ( CNN ) -- Jurors began deliberations Wednesday in the case of Joshua Komisarjevsky , the second man to be tried in connection with a deadly Connecticut home invasion in 2007 . A day before , the jurors heard lawyers ' final pleas in the case as prosecutors cast Komisarjevsky , 31 , as the instigator of the attack , while the defense insisted `` he did not want anyone to die . '' The trial has gone on for a little over three weeks , during which time jurors heard emotional testimony detailing the deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters -- 17-year-old Hayley Petit and 11-year-old Michaela Petit . After closing arguments wrapped up Tuesday , Judge Jon Blue started walking jurors through the 17 charges facing Komisarjevsky , including three counts of murder , four counts of kidnapping , burglary , arson and assault . If convicted , he could receive the death penalty . The judge got through 45 of 48 pages detailing the charges late Tuesday afternoon before sending the jury home . Steven Hayes , the first defendant to stand trial , was sentenced to death in December 2010 after a jury convicted him on 16 of 17 charges . As closing arguments began Tuesday , prosecutor Gary Nicholson told jurors , `` Once Komisarjevsky and Hayes completed their plan , where there was a family , there were three corpses . '' Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Komisarjevsky went into the Petit home , beat and tied up Dr. William Petit , raped and strangled his wife , molested one of their daughters , and set the house on fire before attempting to flee . The two daughters , who were both tied to their beds , died of smoke inhalation . William Petit managed to escape . Before assaulting and killing Hawke-Petit , Hayes forced her to go to a bank and withdraw $ 15,000 from an account after finding evidence the account held between $ 20,000 and $ 30,000 , authorities said . Nicholson recounted for jurors Tuesday the ways in which Komisarjevsky aided Hayes during the crime , including driving him to the Petit home , helping him beat William Petit and helping him restrain other family members . `` Make no mistake about it , this intrusion into the Petit home was Mr. Komisarjevsky 's idea , '' Nicholson said . Defense lawyer Jeremiah Donovan stressed to jurors that his client did n't enter the Cheshire home with a lethal weapon . Komisarjevsky , in his view , did n't kill William Petit when he had the chance , and he closed doors to the girls ' room to buy them time to survive the fire . Komisarjevsky was contrasted with Hayes , whom Donovan claimed strangled Jennifer Hawke-Petit , then lit the fatal fire . `` He did not intend that anyone should die , '' Donovan said of Komisarjevsky . On Monday , a 90-minute tape of Komisarjevsky 's police confession was played for jurors . He told authorities he followed Hawke-Petit and her youngest daughter home after seeing them in a shopping center parking lot . He said he started thinking the Petit home was `` very nice . '' Komisarjevsky said in the confession he was beating William Petit with a baseball bat when `` he let out this unearthly scream . I kept hitting him until he finally backed up into a corner of the couch . ... He quieted down and was just staring at me with open eyes , just sheer confusion . '' But he also denied killing anyone , saying that Hayes `` pulled me to the side '' and said , `` 'We got ta kill them and burn the house down . ' I 'm like , ' I 'm not killing anyone , there 's no way . We have the money . There 's not a problem . ' '' William Petit addressed the media after Tuesday 's courtroom session , admitting he was bothered by the defense 's strategy -- including its claim that his escape from the house may have precipitated the chain of events that led to the three deaths , or that things may not have unfolded as they did if Hawke-Petit had acted differently . CNN 's Deborah Feyerick contributed to this report .
On Wednesday , the judge ran the jury through the two charges . If convicted , Donovan could receive the death penalty . His attorney insists he did n't intend to kill , blaming a co-conspirator . He 's accused of being part of a plan that left a Connecticut woman and her 17 daughters dead .