Muha is recalling his brother's life and how he has been impacted by his brother's savage murder.

Chris Muha was overcome by sorrow as he tells a jury his brother sent his mother flowers just one day before his traggic death. He says his brother loved life.

Murder Victim Aaron Land's mother Kathleen O'Hara has told a jury that her son was her rock when her husband died of a heart attack when Aaron was 14 years old. Aaron was her first born child. While Mrs. O'Hara is talking to the jury they are viewing pictures of Aaron Land on a large screen.

O'Hara tells the jury that she stood at the Ocean of Grief when she received word from Steubenville Police that her son was murdered. She said in the following days she questioned how anyone could so brutally take her son's life. She tells the jury she has lived with the pain since the murder. She says that she is outraged over the crime and she prays the outrage will leave her someday.

O'Hara is a therapist. She told the jury that they have been living in "her world for the last two weeks" and that it is an ugly place to be. She told them that defense for Yarbrough is trying to minimize what he did to her son and then the defense objected. Attornies met with judge to protest the comment. After a 15 minute recess the hearing resumed.

The 12 member jury who found Terrell Yarbrough, 28 guilty in the murders of two Franciscan University of Steubenville Students, now must determine whether he should die for the crime or spend the rest of his life in prison.

The jury is being instructed by the judge. The hearing got underway at 10:05.

The penalty hearing phase for the 1999 murders is being held in the Washington County Courtroom.

A Washington County jury found Yarbrough guilty of the first-degree murders of Aaron Land and Brian Muha on Tuesday.

The district attorney is seeking the death penalty in this case. Family members of Muha and Land will be testifying.

The Judge is telling the jury that in this case there are two counts of first degree murder to consider.

The Pennsylvania District Attorney says the Common Wealth does not always seek the death penalty in aggravated murder cases, but he says this case is different.

The state says it has additional evidence it will present during this phase of the proceeding. The district attorney says Yarbrough did participate in the murder and he says it's a fact that Yarbrough marched behind the two students as they marched to their death off of U.S. Route 22 and were executed.

The defense is now arguing that the jury has already decided that Yarbrough will spend the rest of his life in a 6x8 prison cell alone with only his thoughts.

Yarbrough's attorney is telling the jury that his clients life is now in their individual hands. He further says that the jury can not execute only the evil side of Yarbrough. They say the entire man must be executed and they plan to show that Yarbrough does have a good side which they will attempt to display prior to May 31, 1999 when the murders occured.

The defense claims that Yarbrough's mother shot heroin into her veins and that was her main priority while she was pregnant with him and shortly after went to prison. He also says that Terrell's father was addicted to heroin and in no position to provide for Yarbrough, who ended up living with his aunt.

At the age of two Yarbrough was found in a home alone with no one to care for him. Yarbrough's mother was in and out of jail throughout his life.

His attorney says Yarbrough was given an IQ test which showed that he was mildly retarded during his school years. Dr. Michael Hammond of Ohio State University will be among those to testify that Yarbrough was mentally challenged.

Terrell Yarbrough was previously found guilty of murder and several other charges including gross sexual imposition in Ohio following the murder. A higher court later ruled that Yarbrough must be tried in Pennsylvania after it was determined that he actual murder occured there and not in Ohio as previously thought by then Jefferson County Prosecutor Stephen Stern.

The gross sexual imposition charge stemmed from evidence which suggested that both Muha and Land were forced to perform a sex act on each other while Yarbrough and his alleged accomplice held them at gunpoint.