"This is for baby Ray. All of this is for baby Ray."
It only took five hours for a jury to convict the suspect in the murders, 40-year-old Robert Allen Satterfield, with capital murder and another 45 minutes to conclude that he deserved the death sentence.
TEXAS MAN SENTENCED FOR CHILD SEX CRIMES HE COMMITTED WHILE SERVING AS ASSISTANT POLICE CHIEF
Robert Allen Satterfield was sentenced to death for the 2018 murder of a family of 3 (Fox 26 Houston)
"He won't be able to touch his children, or hug his children the way we're not able to hug and touch our children," Rivera said. "He won't be able to do that either. If he stays on death row five years, 10 years, or 30 years from now, we know he's not going to be able to enjoy life."
Satterfield murdered the family and burned their bodies in a pit. He was taken in by authorities days later after being pulled over driving the car he stole from them.
The Rivera family told Fox 26 Houston it is happy that the man who murdered their family members was sentenced to death (Fox 26 Houston)
"They were put in a pit like trash. It was very heartbreaking to see the actual burn pit and what they had to go through," Rivera said. "Baby Ray saw his mother being shot. The only reason he killed baby Ray was because he could identify him."
Wharton County District Attorney Dawn Allison told Fox 26 Houston that Satterfield was a habitual offender with gang affiliations who showed no remorse for the crime and showed signs of paranoia where he thought people were after him.
The Rivera family reacts to news that the man who killed their family members was sentenced to death (Fox 26 Houston)
"He felt like he was being disrespected by them. It could have been robbery, it could have been over the sake of a gun," Allison said.