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The verdict, after nearly 10 hours of deliberations, was met with a mix of solemnity, gratitude and relief among the survivors and families of those killed in the 2018 attack.
Some people expressed firm approval of the death sentence or acceptance that the jury had reached the right decision, while others were disappointed at the outcome.
The gunman who massacred 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 was sentenced Wednesday to death, a federal court decision that came nearly five years after the highest-casualty antisemitic attack in the nation's history.
Survivors and relatives of those who were killed said that the jury’s decision to give the gunman the death penalty was appropriate.
'We’re here, and we are Jews, and we will keep doing what we do. And nothing is going to stop that'