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Al-'Owhali, left, got life in prison in the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya; Mohamed has yet to be sentenced in the Tanzania bombing

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The jury that will decide whether Tanzania embassy bomber Khalfan Khamis Mohamed is put to death or is sentenced to life in prison without parole will begin deliberations Thursday morning.

U.S. District Judge Leonard B. Sand instructed the jurors Tuesday morning, reading a 33-page charge and pointing out that it is almost exactly the same as that for convicted Kenya embassy bomber Mohamed Rashed Daoud al-'Owhali.

The same jury sentenced al-'Owhali to life in prison for the deaths of 213 people in that bombing.

Mohamed was found guilty of 15 capital counts, including 11 counts based on murder for the deaths of 11 people in the August 7, 1998, bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The jurors have spent the past two weeks hearing testimony and evidence for his sentence.

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Trial evidence showed that Mohamed, 27, rented the house where the Tanzanian bomb was built, helped pack TNT into the bomb truck, and rode part of the way to the embassy the morning of the attack.

The last line of 33-page charge instructed the jury, "what the sentencing decision should be is your exclusive duty and responsibility."

-- CNN's Phil Hirschkorn & Brian Palmer contributed to this report.