Joseph Duncan is eligible for the death penalty, a jury of eight men and four women found just now after just under two hours of deliberation.
Now, the case will move into its second phase, in which prosecutors will offer evidence of victim impact and future dangerousness, and Duncan will have an opportunity to offer any mitigating evidence for jurors to balance against the heinousness of the crime, as they consider whether his sentence should be death or life in prison without the possibility of release.
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