It was a rare move, but not unusual in an extraordinary case.

Judge Shawn Ellen Lagrua, shedding her veneer for a moment and showing her human and emotional side as she spoke to the families of Natalie Henderson and Carter Davis.

"I can count on two or three fingers the number of cases that have impacted me like this one has," she told the families from the bench before issuing her sentence for Jeffrey Hazelwood.

Hazelwood entered a plea of guilty, but mentally ill to two counts of malice murder in killings of the 17-year-olds. He was given a sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole.

The teenagers were found murdered behind a Roswell Publix on August 1, 2016. Both had been shot and Henderson's body had been posed after her death.

The families of the two teens hugged and cried following the sentence, with Tad Henderson, Natalie's father, saying that justice for the two does offer the families "some satisfaction."

Judge Lagrua expressed her condolences to the families.

"They will remain an inspiration to this single judge," she said, "to do what she can to see that these things don't happen in the future."

While reading her victim impact statement Henderson's mother was tearful when she said that her daughter will not be able make a difference in the world now.

Judge Lagrua disagreed.

"It may not have been the way she wanted to impact the world, or the way you all thought she would impact the world," the Judge said, "but she has."