Wichita ? Even though a jury sentenced Reginald and Jonathan Carr to die for shooting four friends in the back of the head two years ago, it is a punishment that pales in comparison to the crimes they committed, the sole survivor of the slayings told a court Friday.

“The sentence imposed on them will be a much kinder sentence than they imposed on me, my friends, and all our families,” she said.

Her words came on the same day District Judge Paul Clark followed the jury’s recommendation and sentenced Reginald Carr, 25, and his brother Jonathan, 22, to death by injection for killing three men and a woman on Dec. 15, 2000, as they knelt side-by-side in a snow-covered soccer field.

The Carrs were convicted last week of capital murder in the deaths of Aaron Sander, 29, Brad Heyka, 27, Jason Befort, 26, and Heather Muller, 25.

Befort’s girlfriend, then a 25-year-old teacher, survived and ran naked through the snow to seek help. She was among the key witnesses at the trial, which began more than two months ago.

The five friends were at a Wichita home when two armed intruders forced them to engage in sex with each other, then made them withdraw money from automated teller machines. The two women were raped repeatedly before the five were taken to the soccer field and shot.

“I had no choice in what Reginald and Jonathan Carr did that night. I wasn’t given a choice to save Brad or Aaron or Heather or Jason,” the survivor said. “I had a choice to lie there and die or get up and live. I chose to live. And I still choose to live.”

Clark also sentenced both brothers to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 20 years, in the death of Ann Walenta, 55, a cellist with the Wichita Symphony. She was shot four days before the quadruple killings.

Family members, clockwise from bottom-left, Bill Sander, Lois Muller, Connie Neises, Mary Jo Heyka, Amy Scott and Larry Heyka talk about their relatives, victims of the Dec. 15, 2000, quadruple homicide. The families spoke at a news conference Friday at the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita after a judge confirmed the death penalty for Reginald Carr, 25, and his brother Jonathan, 22, convicted in a Wichita crime spree that left five people dead.

Reginald Carr was also sentenced to an additional 47 years in prison for his conviction on other crimes, and Jonathan Carr was sentenced to an additional 41 years on other convictions. The sentences are to run consecutively.

The brothers showed no visible emotion when the judge pronounced the sentences Friday on the 93 crimes the brothers were convicted of committing during the nine-day crime spree. Jonathan Carr looked down as the victims’ families gave impact statements to the court, while his brother stared ahead.

Neither man spoke on his own behalf before sentencing.

At times struggling to hold back sobs, the survivor of the quadruple killing told a packed courtroom she still paced at night when she heard noises. She said she was careful to blow-dry her hair to cover the spot where the bullet hit her skull, now a bald spot that no longer grows hair. She said whenever she saw the carpet burns that still scarred her knees, she was reminded of the rapes.

The diamond engagement ring Befort had planned to give her for Christmas that year was found in the pocket of Jonathan Carr on the day he was arrested.

Larry Heyka, the father of Brad Heyka, said his only son was his best friend.

“No parent should have to bury a child under such circumstances,” Heyka said. “… I would freely give my life and all my belongings if Brad was alive today.”

Elisabeth Daily, Brad Heyka’s mother, told the court people who did not believe the devil walks the earth had not seen the evidence in this case.