4:30 p.m. A jury could not come to a unanimous decision Monday on whether Craig Wood — the man who killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014 — should be sentenced to death.

The jury's decision was announced after more than four hours of deliberation.

A hearing will be held on Jan. 11. Judge Thomas Mountjoy could sentence Wood as early as that Jan. 11 hearing or set a later date. His choices are the death penalty or life in prison.

3:30 p.m. The jury has been deliberating for more than 3 hours on whether to give Craig Wood the death penalty for killing Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014.

Attorneys presented their closing arguments in the case on Monday morning.

Family members of Wood and Hailey are in the hallway waiting for the jury to return.

The attorneys have mostly remained in the courtroom.

Several news reporters are also sitting on benches on the third floor of the courtroom waiting for the jury to return its verdict.

12:14 p.m. The jury went back to deliberate about whether to give Craig Wood the death penalty or life in prison for murdering Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens.

Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson was the last attorney to address the jurors before they left the courtroom.

Patterson asked the jurors to hold Wood accountable for his actions by giving him the death penalty.

“If Hailey could speak to you, she would say she wants to live and have that future,” Patterson said. “Well, that’s what the defendant wants, too.”

Patterson said Wood did not show Hailey mercy when he kidnapped, raped and killed her on Feb. 18, 2014 so they should not show him mercy.

12:00 p.m. Craig Wood’s defense attorneys implored the jurors to show Mercy to Wood, the man who killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014.

Thomas Jacquinot began his closing arguments by holding up a handwritten letter sent to Wood from a parent of child he coached.

For years, Jacquinot said, Wood has held on to the letter which thanks him “for all you do.”

Why?

“It could be he was touched or affirmed or honored by such a simple gesture,” Jacquinot said.

Jacquinot then moved to the suffering he will face “each and every day” in prison.

Wood will know that as his parents’ health decline, Jacquinot said, Wood will be incapable of helping them.

“When they need him most, he won’t be there for them,” Jacquinot said.

Jacquinot spoke slowly, often pausing.

“The law does not provide an answer on the ultimate issue of punishment,” he said. “It’s a personal and individualized decision that each of you must make.”

Jacquinot reminded the jurors that Wood had practically no criminal record.

If given life in prison, Jacquinot said, Wood will be reminded every day of the “unthinkable harm” he did, the loss of what he might have been and the damage he has done to his family.

“That is punishment,” Jacquinot said. “And that is a reason to vote for life.”

Jacquinot sat down, and Patrick Berrigan finished the closing arguments.

“Craig Wood’s gonna draw his last breath behind bars and barbed wire,” Berrigan said.

According to Berrigna, Wood will be aware every day of the pain he caused Hailey’s family.

“He’s gonna take that guilt with him to his grave,” Berrigan said. “Is that going to be on nature’s time, or man’s?”

Berrigan remined the jurors multiple times that there is not a requirement in the law a person must be sentenced to death.

Even terrorists, Berrigan said, can be punished with a sentence of life in prison.

Berrigan described Wood as “clearly a functioning alcoholic at the very least.”

But despite Wood’s problems, Berrigan said, he still helped at his parent’s farm and maintained decades-long relationships with his friends.

“When good people do horrible, terrible things, how do we explain that?” Berrigan asked the jurors. “He had some pretty serious demons that he had hidden and suppressed for years.”

Wood lost that battle on Feb. 18, 2014, Berrigan said, the day Hailey was abducted.

“His 49 years, it’s not measured by the worst 50 minutes he lived,” Berrigan said. “For those worst 50 minutes he lived he will die in prison.”

According to the Berrigan, that Wood stored pills in jail to kill himself “speaks volumes” about Wood’s remorse for what he did to Hailey.

“You now decide for yourself because each one of you is going to be living the rest of your life with this decision, too,” Berrigan told the jurors. “You don’t have to defend it and you don’t have to explain it.”

Berrigan ended his arguments by talking about mercy.

“Mercy is not earned … We exercise mercy for ourselves,” Berrigan said. “It’s for those little angels in our soul that need to nourished with compassion and understanding.”

Berrigan quoted Clarence Darrow, who once said that “mercy is the highest attribute of man.”

Berrigan ended his arguments: “Craig Wood’s life is worth saving.”

11:30 a.m. Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson gave his closing argument, asking the jurors to give Craig Wood the death penalty for murdering Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens.

“This is it,” Patterson said. “This is the case. This is the case that calls for strict enforcement of the law and the ultimate penalty, the death penalty.”

Patterson reminded jurors of the details of the crime — Wood snatched Hailey off the street, took the girl back to his home, sexually assaulted her and shot her to death.

“I’m at a loss for words how to accurately and adequately describe what Hailey went through on that day,” Patterson said. “I just don’t have the words to describe it.”

Patterson also brought up the testimony that Hailey’s family members and teacher made during the penalty phase of the proceedings about Hailey’s friendly, goofy, giving nature.

He said Wood’s actions had a big impact on Hailey’s family.

“This defendant not only brutalized Hailey Owens, but he damaged her family, her brother, her school, her entire community,” Patterson said.

Patterson said the aggravating factors in this case far outweigh the mitigating circumstances and he asked jurors to choose the death penalty over life in prison.

11:08 a.m. After the attorneys finished jury instructions, the jurors were brought back into the courtroom.

While the jury was out of the courtroom, Judge Thomas Mountjoy also ruled on several motions the defense had filed.

Mountjoy will now read the instructions to the jury. After that is complete, attorneys will make their closing arguments and the jury will go out to deliberate on whether Craig Wood should receive the death penalty for murdering Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens in 2014.

8:50 a.m. A jury will likely decide today whether Craig Wood will spend life in prison or be sentenced to death.

Wood was convicted of first-degree murder last week, after prosecutors said he kidnapped, raped and killed 10-year-old Hailey Owens in February 2014.

Attorneys for the defense and prosecution must first argue over the instructions that will be read to the jury. Then, the jury will listen to closing arguments by each side.

Finally, the jury will deliberate.

Before resting, Wood’s attorney made a motion to let Wood address the jury without being questioned by prosecutors. The judge denied the motion.

The trial had been expected to last until Friday.

8:30 a.m. The penalty phase of the Craig Wood trial continues Monday at the Greene County Courthouse.

A jury convicted Wood of first-degree murder Thursday for the February 2014 abduction and killing of Springfield 10-year-old Hailey Owens.

Now, jurors are hearing evidence for and against the death penalty.

On the first day of the penalty phase Friday, several people who were close to Hailey spoke about the impact the girl had on their lives.

The prosecution rested early Friday afternoon. Since then, Wood's defense has called several witnesses — Wood's parents, his childhood friends and a pair of deputies from the Greene County Jail.

Wood's defense attorneys will continue to present their case today.

At the end of the penalty phase, the 12 jurors will decide whether to sentence Wood to the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole.

There are several aggravating factors a jury considers when determining if the death penalty is appropriate, including whether the murder was "outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, or depravity of mind."

Defense attorneys, in turn, present mitigating factors which might dissuade the jury from choosing the death penalty.