It was the lies that convinced jurors a Morgantown nurse was guilty of injecting her husband with a fatal dose of a paralyzing drug and then setting a fire to cover her crime.

Juror Gloria Newman told The Dominion Post that they also thought the defense's theory that James Michael killed himself was crazy.

The six-man, six-woman Kanawha Circuit Court jury also didn't think Michelle Michael helped her case when she took the stand to testify in her own defense because she didn't look remorseful.

Michael lied about where she was the morning of the fire and about an affair she had with a family friend.

Juror James Callihan says he was the lone holdout until the final day of deliberations. He hesitated because other people had access to rocuronium, the drug used to kill James Michael in November 2005.

Jurors quickly decided to grant Michael mercy, which leaves open the possibility of parole after serving 15 years.

Michael, the mother of two, was found guilty on July 20 of first-degree murder and first-degree arson.