ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- A jury is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday on whether three men convicted of murdering six people in Deltona should receive the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

It takes only a majority vote to recommend a death sentence.

Michael Salas, Jerone Hunter, both 20, and the group's 29-year-old ringleader, Troy Victorino, were convicted last week of first-degree murder for beating the six victims to death with baseball bats in August 2004.

Prosecutors said one of the victims had Victorino and some of his friends evicted from her grandmother's vacant house. He became angry when she kept his Xbox video game system and some clothing, so prosecutors said Victorino organized the killings.

In testimony during the penalty phase of the trial, a psychiatrist called Salas "a young, immature kid ... with a low IQ, who is small and frail."

A second psychiatrist testified that Hunter had serious mental problems, that his father was treated for schizophrenia and his mother for depression.

Jurors were told that Victorino was physically and sexually abused as a child, had tried to kill himself several times and lacks the ability to control his emotions and anger.

A fourth defendant, Robert Cannon, 20, pleaded guilty in October to all the charges. But when he took the stand early in the trial, he refused to testify and said he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea because he was innocent.

Chief Circuit Judge Bill Parsons hasn't decided whether he will allow the change.

Channel 4's Melanie Lawson is covering today's developments at the St. Johns County Courthouse. Live coverage if and when the sentences are announced and complete updates throughout the day on the local station begin at 5 p.m.