AKRON, Ohio — The wealthy doctor liked to select his wife's clothes for her — and her shoes, perfume and purses, and where she and her relatives sat at the dinner table.

Dr. Gulam Moonda also expected Donna Moonda to have a plate of fruit ready for him when he came home from work, then wanted complete silence as he rested, with no television, phone calls or conversation with his wife to disturb him.

"Gulam, he made the decisions," said Donna Moonda's mother, Dorothy Smouse.

Such was the relationship family members described during a sentencing hearing Monday for the 48-year-old Donna Moonda, who was convicted earlier this month of hiring her lover to kill her 69-year-old husband.

A jury will begin deliberations Wednesday on whether to sentence Moonda to life in prison or give her a death sentence. She could become just the third female on federal death row in Terre Haute, Ind.

A forensic psychologist was to testify today about her mental state.

Donna Moonda never complained to her mother, sisters or friends about her husband, they testified. Nor did she reveal that she was having an affair, was abusing painkillers and had lost her nursing license.

But she confided in boyfriend Damian Bradford that the doctor was like a "prison guard." She then persuaded the 26-year-old Bradford to shoot the doctor on the Ohio Turnpike with promises of sharing half his multimillion dollar estate, he testified during her trial.

Moonda's mother held her composure on the witness stand Monday — describing her daughter as a loving child who took care of her parents — until defense attorney David Grant asked the 77-year-old about the possibility of Moonda receiving the death penalty.

"It would just break my heart," she said sobbing. "I don't know what I would do."

Moonda also cried as her mother left the witness stand.

Grant told the jury that Moonda shouldn't get the death penalty because she suffers from a personality disorder and Bradford, the triggerman, was sentenced to just 17½ years in prison.

Bradford of Monaca testified as the prosecution's star witness as part of a plea deal, and he was sentenced last week by Judge David D. Dowd Jr., who is presiding at the sentencing phase of Moonda's trial.

Grant pointed out that Bradford could get out of prison before age 40 with good behavior.