EL PASO, Texas -- The jury in the David Renteria resentencing hearing heard closing arguments from both sides on Monday afternoon.

The defense told jurors that alcohol and domestic violence in his background were clearly a problem for Renteria.

"In prison, there's no alcohol, no children," defense lawyer Edy Payag told the jury.

Renteria was convicted and sentenced to death for brutally killing 5-year-old Alexandra Flores in 2001. An appellate court decided he deserved another sentencing trial because of a technicality in the first sentencing phase.

The defense team reminded the jury that experts who took the stand testified Renteria doesn't pose a threat in prison society. The defense told jurors to give Renteria a life sentence because he has no chance of parole until he's in his 80s and because of his clean disciplinary record in prison.

The district attorney, Jaime Esparza, told the jury the reason why his disciplinary record in prison is pristine is because he's in a cell by himself being monitored 24/7. He also told the jury that alcohol didn't make Renteria kill Flores.

"He could get to that ugly dark horrible place of his all on his own in a rational, cold, methodical killing way," said Esparza.

Jurors were handed the charge and were asked to answer to questions regarding Renteria's probability that he would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society and if the jury believes there's sufficient mitigating circumstances to warrant a sentence of life in prison.