Fargo, N.D. ? A federal jury decided Thursday that the sex offender convicted of kidnapping college student Dru Sjodin, killing her and leaving her body in a Minnesota ravine is eligible for the death penalty.

The jury now must decide whether Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. should be sentenced to death for the murder. That phase of the trial is scheduled to begin Monday afternoon.

The same jury of seven women and five men found Rodriguez, 53, guilty last week of a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death.

Sjodin, 22, of Pequot Lake, Minn., was a University of North Dakota student when she was abducted from the parking lot of a Grand Forks shopping mall on Nov. 22, 2003. Her body was found the following April in a ravine near Crookston, Minn., the town where Rodriguez lived. Prosecutors said Sjodin was beaten, raped and stabbed.