Jury mulls death penalty for Marathon bomber

Jurors have wrapped up their first day of deliberations on a sentence for the Boston Marathon bomber.

Anti-death penalty protesters talk with a member of the Homeland Security force outside the courthouse where jurors are deciding on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's fate. AP Photo/Stephan Savoia

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr. excused the jury Wednesday after 45 minutes of deliberation.

The jury will reconvene Thursday. It must decide whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev gets the death penalty for the 2013 attack or spends the rest of his life in prison.

Execution will require a unanimous decision. If just one juror balks, Tsarnaev will get a life sentence. The same jury convicted him last month of all 30 counts against him.

Prosecutors insisted in closing arguments that he should be put to death for the bombing, which killed three people and wounded 260 others. The defense says he was influenced by his radicalized older brother and should be spared.

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