jonathan carr used to work for juanita culver's husband. >> what can you tell us about jonathan? obably one of the nicest, polite, kind, warm, giving -- always -- he was the epitome of the finest young man you could find. >> reginald carr's wife, mandy, who did not want to be photographed, said he wrote poetry for her and drew pictures for his children while in prison. >> yes, that's a picture that reggie drew. i think that one was for anthony. >> and is it signed? >> yes. it says love daddy. >> relatives of the carrs testified that mental illness ran in the family and defense experts told the court that as children the brothers had been neglected and abused by their parents, that they were psychologically scarred. >> hopeless, helpless, homeless, hungry, and ugless. >> a medical expert, who did not wish to have his face shown was brought by the defense to testify how blows to the head the brothers suffered as children might have caused brain damage. >> these regions of the brain that you found to be abnormal, what do they control again? >> short-term memory and assigning risk to