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Declaration that they're hung up on two? shannon joins us. >> reporter: day ten of deliberations. the jury told the judge they were stuck on the two charges, simply couldn't agree. when both attorneys arrived, they felt confident the jury was making progress. we didn't get any indication when the jury was back in the courtroom about which of the two charges they're stuck on. there were 250 against gosnell. the judge praised them for taking his time. there are five murder counts against gosnell. he told the jurors not to hesitate to re-examine their own views but counseled that no juror should ...

With other charges. a colleague of his is facing charges as well. this is possibly a death penalty case, folks, if he is found guilty of these verdicts. so what is likely to happen once the jury tells us what it has decided? joining me now, elyse wheel a. if the jury finds him guilty, this is a death penalty-eligible crime. what will happen next? >> okay, what will happen right there on the scene is that the judge will pull all the jurors to make sure that they all agree to their verdicts. you're right, they'll go through the aggravated murder, the murder counts first and then the lesser count...

Before she did that, her report to us is, there is now a verdict. and the courtroom is silenced to the outside world. we have to wait and see what's happening, whether the jurors made progress on those two counts -- and we don't know which of the 250 counts or the nine against his co-defendant -- may have been. the judge sent them back and said, give it another shot. it's possible that they returned a verdict on 250-plus counts but remain hung on those two. that's what we're waiting to find out. it will likely be a lengthy process if this is the verdict, as our producer told us from inside the...

Beyond a reasonable doubt the death of a fetus. so very interesting question, but it raises the stakes enormously because instead of facing 11 years as he is on some of these kidnapping counts he'd be facing life in prison possibly without parole or the death penalty if prosecutors can sustain murder counts. >> let me ask you this, too, paul. he's facing kidnapping charges for obviously the three women but also the 6-year-old who dna tests confirm now is his daughter, will the kidnapping charge hold when it comes to the child? obviously it's heinous, but to the letter of the law would that be ...

Their client is taught on tape committing the offense but don't expect them to be tripping all over each other. the justice department has a tough opponent but they got the goods, the videotape. >> neil: and the history of terry nichols-sentenced to toy and was executed. what was the difference there? what made an execution the end game there? >> lawyers are lawyers, not magicians. you fight the case every step of the way, but there are some instances when your client does get put to death. there's nothing going for your client. horrible crime. look, neil, when this case is indicted it's not g...