TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Thursday in the murder trial of a 75-year-old woman accused of being the mastermind behind a plot in which hired hit men shot her former son-in-law in the head in his Tallahassee garage.

Attorneys finished their closing arguments in the afternoon following more than two weeks of trial. Donna Adelson faces charges of first-degree murder as well as conspiracy and solicitation to commit first-degree murder. If convicted, she could spend the rest of her life in prison.

Adelson is accused of orchestrating the 2014 murder of Daniel Markel , a Florida State University law professor who at the time of his death was locked in a bitter child custody fight with his ex-wife, and Adelson’s daughter, Wendi Adelson. The couple had been married seve

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