Jurors ended a third day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict in the federal death penalty trial surrounding the killings of a family of four along Florida’s Turnpike.

Ricardo Sanchez and Daniel Troya, both 25, could face the death penalty if convicted in the shooting deaths of Jose Luis Escobedo and his family. Jurors are also considering drug conspiracy and gun charges against both men, the leader of their alleged ring Danny Varela, and Varela’s sometime girlfriend Liana Lee Lopez.

The 12-member jury panel began deliberating Monday, capping off more than five weeks of testimony in the case.

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