Following five days of deliberation, the jury in the penalty phase for Joshua Komisarjevsky finally reached a verdict on Friday and sentenced the triple murderer to death.

As RadarOnline.com previously reported, Komisarjevsky was found guilty of 17 counts on October 13 for the grisly murders of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, and the vicious beating of Dr. William Petit in their Cheshire, Connecticut home.

As the sole survivor in the home invasion, Dr. Petit had been anxiously awaiting the decision in a conference room at the New Haven court with other family members.

Troy Davis’ sister Kimberly, has spoken of her time with her brother just prior to his execution Wednesday night by Georgia authorities, sharing that: "Our last moments were joyous.”

“My brother was giving us charge as to what he wanted us to do, telling us to hold our heads up, telling my nephew to continue to be all that he could be,” she continued.

“My niece was showing him her ballet shoes and telling him to stand on his tippy toes like a ballerina," Kimberly told ABC News from her Savannah, Ga., home.