An ex-solider convicted of murdering his 5-year-old daughter Talia Williams was sentenced to life in prison by a Honolulu jury on Friday, Reuters reports.

The case gained national attention because it was the Aloha State’s first-ever death penalty case.

According to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the jury deadlocked in the capital case with one juror telling the newspaper that the panel was 8-4 in favor of capital punishment for Naeem Williams.

A deadlocked jury means that the jury cannot, by the necessary voting threshold, agree upon a verdict after extended deliberation and is unable to alter its votes.

“It’s going to be a long, hard journey of healing, and I’ll never forget what happened to her and she will always live in my heart, no matter what,” Talia’s mother Tarshia Williams told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser following the jury’s decision.

According to The Associated Press, the jury that convicted the ex-soldier of murder in April deliberated for approximately seven days before determining that they couldn’t agree on a sentence. The AP notes that the jury reached their verdict on Thursday, but waited until Friday to read it because they were “emotionally drained” by the process.

The AP adds that the death penalty was abolished in the Aloha State in 1957, but Williams’ crime took place in military housing and he was tried and convicted in the federal court system.