A convicted murderer will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury handed down their sentence Monday.

The same jury convicted Brian Engleton last Thursday of murdering his wife Deidre Engleton in June 2011 when he stabbed her more than 30 times outside of the northeast hair salon she owned.

A jury could choose between sentencing Engleton anywhere from 5 to 99 years, or life in prison.

"He deserved what he got and we can all go on and have some peace," said friend Vickie Wyche.

During the victim impact statements, Deidre's family members told Brian Engleton, loving him was her only mistake.

"She loved you to death," said sister Jorgette Brown.

Deidre and Brian's teenage daughter, Jasmine, also took the stand and spoke to her father for the first time.

"First think I want to say is how really happy I am about the verdict. I am beyond happy about what has come to you, Brian," said Jasmine. "I feel happy that my mom is away from you where you can't touch her anymore. You had no right to do what you did but you did it anyway."

Her three minutes on the stand brought almost everyone in the courtroom to tears.

"You are not my father, I don't know who the hell you are, but you are not my father," Jasmine said, referring to him as "Brian" the entire time, not "dad."

"You sit here in this courtroom and you lied. You lied about my mom. You lied about yourself. You are nothing. You are scum," she said.

Jasmine also took time to discredit the family man image the defense tried to portray.

"You know you didn't care anything about me and my mother. You put me, my mother and my sister down and you know it," said Jasmine.

She said there were several lies made about his relationship with her including his lawyers saying he used to take Jasmine on "daddy-daughter dates."

Jasmine was also upset Engleton tried to appear as though he provided for the family and was the breadwinner.

"She made the money in the household. You didn't make anything. You took her money and her hard work away from her," said Jasmine.

Despite the tragic circumstances of losing her mother at the hands of her father, Jasmine said she refuses to let it define her.

"(You'd) best believe that throughout my life, I'm going to be successful, all the things that you said I can't do. I'm going to do it. I'm going to be a successful person, whatever I chose to do," said Jasmine. Brown said Engleton may have taken her sister physically from them, but he didn't take her spirit.

"He didn't put her light out. She had and still has a great soul that's what he was jealous of. He wanted to be like her in so many ways but yet, he couldn't hold a flame to my sister," said Brown.

Engleton's defense team of Frank Macias and Veronica Lerma asked jurors for mercy and compassion when they were debating his sentence.

Macias disagreed with the sentence.

"As far as the life, gosh I thought that was excessive," said Macias.

He maintains his client's innocence and doesn't think Engeton should have been found guilty in the first place.

"I feel the state did not meet its burden and I do feel we placed a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jurors and I guess I was wrong because they came back with a quick verdict," said Macias. Macias said he is convinced it was the military officer Moe, with whom Deidre was allegedly having an affair, who killed Deidre.

Throughout the trial Engleton was notorious for having several outbursts. Monday, he fired his defense team saying that he wanted to represent himself. When Judge Maria Salas Mendoza got the paperwork for Engleton to sign, waiving his right to counsel, he stated he wanted a lawyer, just not his lawyers.

"We did a thorough job with this, we are happy with the work that we've done, even if he wasn't happy with it," said Macias.

Macias and Lerma are not the first team assigned to represent Engleton.

"We weren't the first lawyers on this case I think we were six or seven, so we knew he wasn't going to be happy. Before we took this case, before they appointed us this case, we knew he wasn't going to be happy with us. Our client doesn't have to be happy with you to effectively represent them, go out and do all the work that needs to be done," said Macias.

Deidre's friends and family said they now have some peace and are working on healing but said there is a message in Deidre's story to seek help and to get out of an abusive relationship. Friends and family said Engleton stalked Deidre, he admitted to placing a GPS on her car and phone and he physically and emotionally abused her.

"You can love a person but that type of love is not a healthy love," said Smith. "I think 10 years ago had she looked at the situation she would have gotten out because it wasn't a healthy relationship."

Smith said she hopes Deidre's story will encourage others to seek the resources they need to get out of a similar relationship.

"Both men and women need to know when enough is enough and to get out before things take a bad turn, and in this case, death," said Smith.

"Deidre was such a lovely person. I really miss her; I think we all miss her. Her word was 'fabulous' and she was just fabulous," said Wyche. Macias said they will be appealing the case, they have already filed a post-conviction writ to introduce voice mails from Deidre's alleged boyfriend they felt should have been introduced into the case. Engleton will also have to pay a $10,000 fine.