A Northumberland County jury will begin hearing testimony today regarding whether Richard C. Curran should get the death penalty for killing his estranged wife, Tina Curran, in August 2005. Three Valley men are among the 225 sitting on death row. They are:

-- Brentt Sherwood, 28, convicted for the 2004 killing of his stepdaughter, Marlee Rose Reed, in Northumberland.

-- James Frey, 49, convicted for the 2004 killing of his estranged wife, Debra, near Sunbury.

-- Kevin Marinelli, 36, convicted for the 1994 killing of Conrad Dumchock during a burglary in Kulpmont.

The first man executed in Pennsylvania after the reinstatement of the death penalty was Keith Zettlemoyer, formerly of Selinsgrove. Zettlemoyer was convicted in Dauphin County for killing Charles DeVetsco, who was scheduled to testify against him about a robbery at the Susquehanna Valley Mall. Zettlemoyer was executed by lethal injection in 1995.