AKRON, Ohio — Jurors began deliberations Thursday in the trial of a Pennsylvania woman accused of hiring her lover to shoot her wealthy husband to death on the Ohio turnpike.

Prosecutors said Donna Moonda, 48, had grown tired of her marriage to Dr. Gulam Moonda, 69 — who she called a prison guard — and hired Damian Bradford to kill him for a share of his multimillion dollar estate.

Bradford has admitted fatally shooting Gulam Moonda along the highway during a trip the married couple was taking on May 13, 2005.

"Two minds were set on murder," assistant U.S. attorney Linda Barr told jurors in closing arguments. "Two fingers were on the trigger of that gun on May 13, 2005, and two people must be held accountable."

Jurors began deliberating late Thursday afternoon and were sequestered overnight. They were to resume at 8:30 a.m. today. Moonda could receive the death penalty if convicted.

Moonda cried during the hourlong statement by prosecutors, her head bobbing up and down as she sobbed.

Her attorney, Roger Synenberg, said in his closing statement that the doctor still had a pulse when paramedics arrived because his wife performed CPR.

"Her doing CPR for 20 minutes, that's evidence of innocence," he said. "That's not evidence you want your husband robbed and murdered."

Synenberg has maintained that Bradford, 25, of Monaca is a thug who acted alone.

"It was a spontaneous decision made by a 'roided-up drug dealer who needed money to buy drugs," he said of the shooting.

Bradford, who met Moonda in drug rehab, testified that she offered him half of her husband's estate if he killed the doctor. Bradford has pleaded guilty to interstate stalking and a gun charge and promised to cooperate with authorities in return for a 17½-year sentence.

Assistant U.S. attorney Nancy Kelley recounted the numerous text messages and phone calls Bradford and Donna Moonda made to each other, messages that Moonda would sometimes sign as "your baby girl."

"They told of sex, drugs, wealth, violence and a future together," Kelley said.

Besides a murder for hire charge, Moonda is charged with interstate stalking and two counts of using or carrying a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.