Kyle Trevor Flack, 30, Ottawa, listens Thursday morning, March 31, 2016, at the Franklin County District Court, as a jury recommends that he be sentenced to death. Flack was sentenced to death Wednesday morning, May 18, 2016.

Ottawa ? Kyle Trevor Flack was sentenced to death Wednesday morning in Franklin County District Court for the fatal 2013 shootings of two men, a woman and her 18-month-old daughter.

Flack, 30, was convicted in March of capital murder in the deaths of Kaylie Bailey, 21, and her daughter, Lana-Leigh Bailey. He was also convicted of first degree murder in the death of Steven White, 31, and second-degree murder in the death of Andrew Stout, 30.

Franklin County Judge Eric W. Godderz imposed the death sentence on Flack for the capital murder conviction. Flack was also sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder conviction, 23 years in prison for the second-degree murder conviction and nine months in prison for a felony gun charge.

Before the sentencing, several members of the victims’ families spoke of their feelings of grief, loss, pain, confusion and condemnation of Flack’s actions.

“I don’t know what to say other than I lost my best friend,” said Neil Stout, Andrew Stout’s father. “I don’t understand how something like this happens.”

“I can’t have anyone knock at my door without feeling anxious. I pushed away friends and family who have tried to understand what I’m going through,” said Randi White, Steven White’s wife. “My kids both have anxiety and or anger issues. They have trouble sleeping. My son has nightmares every night. Nightmares where he calls out for his daddy. And his daddy should be able to protect him from these dreams, but he’s gone.”

“The holidays are not the same anymore, for the last three years,” said Carla Fisher, Steven White’s mother. “Christmastime was his favorite holiday. If he wasn’t at the house celebrating with us, he would always call. Well, for the last three years he hasn’t called.”

“I have spent countless hours over the years trying to decipher your actions on the day you stole the only good thing I’ve ever done for this world,” said Shawn Bailey, Kaylie Bailey’s estranged husband and Lana-Leigh Bailey’s father. “The only decisive determination I have come to is that you simply wanted to cause as much pain and devastation to the world because your own life was such a wretched, sorry excuse of an existence.”

“In their own respective realms, both of them had just started life,” Lisa Smith said of her daughter, Kaylie Bailey, and her granddaughter, Lana-Leigh Bailey. “They were beautiful. They were precious. They were adored. They were mine. They are dead.”

When asked if there was anything he wished to say before the sentencing, Flack shook his head and said only “no.”

Addressing the courtroom, Godderz called the four murders tragic, needless and troubling. He said the devastating effects of the crimes were easily seen in the faces of the victims’ families.

As Godderz announced his decision to impose the death penalty on Flack for the capital murder conviction, scattered gasps and muttered words of agreement swept across the courtroom.

Shawn Bailey, however, later said he had hoped Flack would not get the death penalty because he would have preferred to see him in the general prison population.

It isn’t clear how to move forward after Flack’s conviction and sentencing, Shawn Bailey said.

“It killed everything in me,” he said. “It’s not really something I would want to risk again. Being a dad, being a husband, that’s just a lot of pain.”

The murders of Kaylie Bailey, her daughter Lana-Leigh Bailey, her new boyfriend, Andrew Stout, and his roommate, Steven White, all took place between April 20 and May 1, 2013, in a rural farmhouse eight miles west of Ottawa.

All the victims were shot at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun. The adults’ bodies were found a week later at the farm, while the child’s body was found in a suitcase dumped into a rural creek.

Flack’s trial lasted two weeks and prosecutors called dozens of witnesses to the stand. The defense called no witnesses. Jurors deliberated for a total of about four hours before returning with guilty verdicts.

Excluding Flack, there are currently 9 people on death row in Kansas, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections. The state has not executed anybody since 1965.