Some were tears of relief, when someone decided how they would vote. Most of the tears were for Megan. There were no tears for Jesse. There was never anything like that. Jesse got what Jesse deserved.
Some people just take longer to deliberate than others.
The hardest part of the whole thing for me is that I still, to this moment, cannot understand how someone could do the things he did to that child. The jury goes into deliberations just after 1 p.m., following a fervid summation by Kathryn Flicker, the prosecutor who argued for the death penalty. According to Mazza, the first thing they do when they return to the large jury room is sit down to a lunch of deli sandwiches, salads and sodas. As they eat, the jurors make small talk. Two coach Little League, so one discussion is about baseball.