PHOENIX (AP) - Jury deliberations are scheduled to resume Tuesday afternoon over whether an Arizona woman convicted of fatally beating her husband with a hammer should spend the rest of her life in prison or be sentenced to death.
Jurors were scheduled to continue deliberations Monday at the trial of 36-year-old Marissa Devault (dehv-WAH’) , but a court spokesman says those plans were called off and the jury will instead meet again Tuesday.
So far, the jury has spent a total of a day-and-a-half considering Devault’s punishment.
Devault was convicted in the January 2009 killing of Dale Harrell.
Prosecutors say Devault killed Harrell in a failed bid to collect on a life insurance policy.
Devault says she killed Harrell in self-defense and claims he had physically and sexually abused her in the past.
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