BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) -- It's been days since the verdict came down, but the case is clearly not over, as legal teams prepare for their next moves, and survivors like Krystle Campbell's friend Karen McWatters are trying not to think about how much longer the ordeal could go on.
Karen Rand McWatters was with Krystle Campbell on Marathon Monday in 2013.
"I knew it was a happy day for her - we were having a lot of fun that day," she said.
They were about to watch Karen's then-boyfriend, now husband, cross the Boston Marathon finish line.
Before heading down to Boylston Street, they took a picture, smiling, on Boston Common.
"When we stopped to take that picture, we were laughing that we were acting like tourists when a girl came by and asked if she could take our picture," she said. "But now I'm glad that I have it."
But instead of it being just another happy memory in a photo album, the photo was shown on the first day of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial.
Karen testified about how she lost her left leg, in the first explosion. She grabbed Krystle's hand as her friend died.
"Her hand slipped out of mine - I thought she passed out," McWatters said.
When word of a death sentence reached Karen on Friday, she had mixed motions.
She believes in the death penalty but said Monday "I think I would've been happy with life just so he would go away and not be the focus."
Still, the reality is not lost on Karen that years of appeals are likely now ahead.
"Every time you turn around, he's back on the news and he's back on TV, and it's a shame," she said. "And it's so hard on everybody whose already suffered enough."