LUMBERTON — A jury this morning began its third day of deliberations in the murder trial of a Fairmont man who was once on death row for the shooting death of a fast-food worker in 1998.

The jury told Superior Court Judge Robert Floyd before going home for the day on Thursday that it was deadlocked 11 to 1 in the trial of Travis Walters, who is accused of killing a teenage girl. The jury did not indicate in which direction it was deadlocked, or on what charge. The jury has been charged with finding Walters guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or not guilty.

Walters, who is now 29, is accused of killing Betty Jane Oxendine, who was 18 years old when she was shot to death early in the morning of Jan. 6, 1998, while she worked as a supervisor at Hardee’s on West Fifth Street. Oxendine was also a student at Robeson Community College when she was killed.

Walters is also charged with armed robbery.

Walters was originally convicted of first-degree murder in 2001 and sentenced to death. But the death sentence was commuted in 2005 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to execute anyone who was under the age of 18 at the time of the crime. Walters, who was 17 when Oxendine was killed, was resentenced to life in prison in 2006.

His new trial was ordered because of problems with the transcript from the 2001 trial.

The jury began deliberating about 4 p.m. on Wednesday and did so for about an hour before being sent home. Jurors deliberated all day on Thursday without reaching a verdict. At about 11 a.m. on Thursday, the jury asked Judge Floyd for a clarification of the definition of second-degree murder.

Stan Todd, the assistant district attorney who is prosecuting the case, has tried to demonstrate that the murder was premeditated, saying Walters killed Oxendine even though she had consented to his demand to give him money from a back office. Sue Berry, the defense attorney, has argued that the gun discharged by accident and that Walters expressed remorse the same day of the murder as he was being arrested at his grandmother’s home in Lake View, S.C.

Walters did not testify during the trial, and the defense did not put anyone else on the stand.

Oxendine’s parents, Betty Rae and Bradley Oxendine, have attended the trial. The victim’s mother called the retrial like “pouring salt into a wound over and over.”

Walters’ mother has also attended the retrial, but did not want to speak with a reporter.