A Lexington, South Carolina jury unanimously voted to give Timothy Ray Jones Jr. the death penalty for killing his five children nearly five years ago.

The verdict was announced Thursday in the Lexington County courtroom. It took the 12-member jury an hour and 50 minutes to return its sentence.

According to Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Jackson, Jones was convicted of killing his five children in Lexington, S.C. and dumping their bodies in Wilcox County on Sept. 9, 2014. The single parent killed his five children: Merah, 8; Elias, 7; Nahtahn, 6; Gabriel, 2; and Abigail Elaine, 1.

“The death penalty was the only option for this monster,” Jackson said.

Jones, 37, admitted in court how he killed his children with his own hands. He also drove in a SUV throughout the South for nine days and dumped the kids’ bodies in five black garbage bags on a dirt road near Camden.  Jones eventually led authorities to the site where the children were found.

Smith County (Mississippi) Sheriff’s Office officials said that Jones confessed to killing the children after his arrest on at a driver’s license checkpoint Sept. 6, 2014 in Raleigh, Mississippi.

Jones, a former software engineer, becomes the second person sent to South Carolina’s death row in Columbia, S.C. since 2014. The state of South Carolina hasn’t executed anyone since 2011 and lacks drugs to carry out lethal injection.