On Tuesday, January 10, 2016, Dylann Roof, a 22 year-old white supremacist, was sentenced to death for a massacre he committed on June 17, 2015.

All twelve of the jurors assigned to Roof’s case, ten men and two women, unanimously proposed the death penalty as a suitable sentence for Roof, who killed nine people worshipping at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, according to CNN. The verdict will make Roof the first person to receive the death penalty for a federal hate crime.

Roof was found guilty on 33 counts by the same jury last month, according to the New York Times. Although he decided to represent himself in court and brought forth no witnesses or evidence, Roof asked the jury to give him lifetime in jail, but claimed he was “not sure what that would do.”

During his closing argument to the jury, Roof said he still felt as though he had no choice but to kill those nine people.

“In my confession to the FBI I told them that I had to do it, and obviously that’s not really true. … I didn’t have to do anything,” Roof explained in court on Tuesday, “but what I meant when I said that was, I felt like I had to do it, and I still do feel like I had to do it.”

After the verdict was delivered, Melvin Graham, a sibling of one of Roof’s victims, told reporters, “This is a very hollow victory, because my sister is still gone. I wish that this verdict could have brought her back. But what it can do is just send a message to those who feel the way he feels that this community will not tolerate it.”