<p>The gunman who shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a massacre that left six others dead in Arizona was given seven life sentences plus 140 years in jail today.<br /><br />"He'll never have the opportunity to pick up a gun again," said Judge Larry Burns, according to Tucson, Arizona's KVOA TV, as he sentenced Jared Lee Loughner.</p>.<p>The sentence, without the possibility of parole, was part of a deal with prosecutors under which the 24-year-old pleaded guilty in August to the January 2011 attack.<br /><br />Giffords was in court, although she did not speak. But her astronaut husband Mark Kelly addressed Loughner in court, saying: "Every day is a continuous struggle to do the things she was once so very good at."</p>.<p>"Gabby would trade her own life for one you took on that day," he said, cited by Tucson TV station KVOA.<br /><br />"You tried to create a world as dark and evil as your own. Remember this: You failed," according to the AZ Central news website.<br /><br />Loughner's only words were "Yes, sir" when the judge asked if he had agreed to decline comment.<br /><br />Victims and relatives of victims gave emotional testimony before Loughner was sentenced.<br /><br />"You took away my life, my love, my reason for living," said Mavanell Stoddard, whose 76-year-old husband Dorwan died trying to shield her from the bullets.<br /><br />"I felt his body give.. I was holding him as he died," she said, but told Loughner: "I forgive you. I don't hate you. I hate the act," according to tweets by KVOA.<br /><br />"You forgot to shoot yourself," she added, cited by NBC News.<br /><br />Both KVOA and Tucson News Now initially reported that he was given six life sentences, but updated the sentence a short time later. </p>
<p>The gunman who shot US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in a massacre that left six others dead in Arizona was given seven life sentences plus 140 years in jail today.<br /><br />"He'll never have the opportunity to pick up a gun again," said Judge Larry Burns, according to Tucson, Arizona's KVOA TV, as he sentenced Jared Lee Loughner.</p>.<p>The sentence, without the possibility of parole, was part of a deal with prosecutors under which the 24-year-old pleaded guilty in August to the January 2011 attack.<br /><br />Giffords was in court, although she did not speak. But her astronaut husband Mark Kelly addressed Loughner in court, saying: "Every day is a continuous struggle to do the things she was once so very good at."</p>.<p>"Gabby would trade her own life for one you took on that day," he said, cited by Tucson TV station KVOA.<br /><br />"You tried to create a world as dark and evil as your own. Remember this: You failed," according to the AZ Central news website.<br /><br />Loughner's only words were "Yes, sir" when the judge asked if he had agreed to decline comment.<br /><br />Victims and relatives of victims gave emotional testimony before Loughner was sentenced.<br /><br />"You took away my life, my love, my reason for living," said Mavanell Stoddard, whose 76-year-old husband Dorwan died trying to shield her from the bullets.<br /><br />"I felt his body give.. I was holding him as he died," she said, but told Loughner: "I forgive you. I don't hate you. I hate the act," according to tweets by KVOA.<br /><br />"You forgot to shoot yourself," she added, cited by NBC News.<br /><br />Both KVOA and Tucson News Now initially reported that he was given six life sentences, but updated the sentence a short time later. </p>