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A Colorado man charged with killing his pregnant wife and two daughters pleaded guilty Tuesday under a plea deal allowing him to avoid the death penalty but putting him in jail for life without a chance of parole.

銆€銆€FILE - In this Aug. 16 Joonas Donskoi Jersey , 2018, file photo, Christopher Watts is escorted into the courtroom before his bond hearing at the Weld County Courthouse in Greeley, Colo. The Colorado man, charged with killing his pregnant wife and two daughters, has pleaded guilty Tuesday Joe Pavelski Jersey , Nov. 6, 2018, under a plea deal that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. (Joshua PolsonThe Greeley Tribune via AP, Pool, file)

Christopher Watts entered his plea Tuesday during a court hearing, replying 鈥済uilty鈥?nine times in response to Judge Marcelo Kopcow鈥檚 reading of each charge against him in the deaths of Shanann Watts Brent Burns Sharks Jersey , 34, and their children, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.


Watts鈥?voice was shaking Logan Couture Sharks Jersey , and he could occasionally be heard sniffing after each time he said 鈥済uilty.鈥?Her parents, Frank Rzucek and Sandra Onorati Rzucek, and her brother, Frankie Rzucek, watched from a front row of the packed courtroom.


The agreement also required Watts to plead guilty to unlawful termination of Shanann Watts鈥?pregnancy, a felony in Colorado. Family members have said she planned to name the boy Nico.


The deal also ensures that Watts Joe Thornton Sharks Jersey , who is 33, will consecutively serve each sentence for that charge and the murders of his wife and daughters.


鈥淗e deserves a life sentence for each and every act,鈥?Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said.


Rourke said he and another prosecutor visited Shanann Watts鈥?family in North Carolina last month to discuss the odds of a death penalty sentence being carried out.


Rourke said he described 鈥渆xtraordinary delays鈥?in carrying out the death penalty in Colorado since Gov. John Hickenlooper鈥檚 2013 decision to block the execution of Nathan Dunlap. Hickenlooper also expressed doubts at the time about the use of the death penalty generally.


Shanann Watts鈥?family members 鈥渨ere very strongly in favor of a resolution in this case short of the death penalty,鈥?Rourke said. He recalled her mother, Sandra, saying Christopher Watts 鈥渕ade the choice鈥?to take the lives of his family members.


鈥淚 do not want to be in the position of making the choice to take his Evander Kane Sharks Jersey ,鈥?Rourke said, quoting Sandra. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 about as firmly as she could have said it to me.鈥?p>

The Rzucek family watched from a row of chairs, holding hands, as Rourke spoke to reporters but did not speak. Rourke said they may decide to testify when Christopher Watts is formally sentenced on Nov. 19.


Watts is represented by the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, which does not comment on pending cases.


Watts, a former oil and gas worker Brent Burns Salute to Service Jersey , was charged in August with killing his pregnant wife and their daughters inside their home in Frederick, a community in the oil and gas fields north of Denver. Police have said Watts then drove their bodies to an oil site owned by his former employer.


The girls鈥?bodies were found submerged in an oil tank, and Shanann Watts鈥?body was found in a shallow grave.