HOUSTON -- A jury on Thursday condemned Max Alexander Soffar for a second time, sending him back to death row for a deadly 1980 bowling-alley robbery that killed three people and maimed a fourth.

Soffar spent 23 years on death row before his conviction was thrown out in 2004 on grounds of inadequate counsel. The Harris County jury convicted him again of capital murder Feb. 22.

The panel agreed Thursday that Soffar, 50, should return to death row for killing Arden Alane Felsher, 17.

Felsher was shot to death July 13, 1980, when Soffar was robbing Stephen Allen Sims, 25, an assistant manager at the Fair Lanes Windfern Bowling Center in Houston. Sims and Felsher's boyfriend, Tommy Lee Temple, 17, were also killed in the attack.

"It's just been such a traumatic event all over again. I'm just so tired," a relative of one of the victims said.

"We live with that fear. Now that he's locked up, we don't have to live with this fear. He's not going anywhere unless they overturn his conviction again and we start this all over again," another relative of a victim said.

Gregory George Garner, 18, was shot in the head but survived and called his parents for help. Garner lost his left eye in the attack and has undergone numerous surgeries to repair his injuries.

Garner testified and his father, Ira, and other relatives attended the trial.

Entering the trial, prosecutors argued that Soffar is a danger to society if he is not executed. The defense argued that Soffar deserved a life sentence because of his psychological problems and troubled childhood.

Soffar was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1981, but the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 2004.