CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : REDWOOD CITY : Jurors Deliberate on Salcido Sentencing

Jurors ended their second day of deliberations without deciding whether to send convicted murderer Ramon Salcido to the gas chamber or to prison for life. Salcido, 29, was convicted Oct. 30 of killing seven people, including six family members, in a 1989 rampage in California’s wine country. The panel of eight women and four men must decide between death and life in prison without possibility of parole. Jurors deliberated from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday. They will begin their third day of discussions at 9 a.m. today The same panel deliberated for four days before convicting Salcido of murdering his wife, two of his daughters, his mother-in-law, two sisters-in-law and a co-worker. The jury also found him guilty of two counts of attempted murder for attacks on a third daughter and another co-worker.