Convicted killer Paul Devoe learned his fate Thursday. Last week it took a Travis County jury only 19 minutes to find Devoe guilty of capital murder in the deaths of two teenage girls.

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KVUE's Jim Bergamo reports

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After more than three hours of deliberation, the jury which had already convicted Paul Devoe of capital murder in the deaths of 17 year old Danielle Hensley and her friend, 15 year old Haylie Faulkner, came back with its verdict in the sentencing trial. 

Shortly before 4pm Thursday, Judge Brenda Kennedy informed Devoe, "This court hereby sentences you to die by lethal injection."

After the verdict was read, Devoe was given a chance to address those in the courtroom, but he declined and so did his family.

However relatives of his victims had plenty to say and none was more passionate in her condemnation of Devoe than Danielle's Hensley's mother, Christina Gribble.

"You've ruined my life,” she said. “I don't even know you but when you look at those hands and when you see the blood pouring down your arms, never forget. I hope they haunt you, I hope they haunt you.”

In addition to Hensley and Faulkner, prosecutors said Devoe also killed three other people in Texas and an 81 year old woman in Pennsylvania. Before the courtroom cleared, victims’ families hugged one another and made it clear that death by lethal injection is too good for Devoe.

"If I could have tortured him and burned him and stabbed him and ripped his head off and stabbed him repeatedly to let him scream and killed him myself then I'd feel better," Gribble told the media afterwards.

"I just wish he was on an escalator to hell. I wish there wasn't 10 years or 15 years or all this appeal bull****. I wish it was now," said Larry Faulkner, Haylie's father.

Like any other death penalty verdict, an automatic appeal must take place.