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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The stories and photos of four young children, all of whom lost parents in the 9/11 attacks, brought witnesses to tears and visibly affected jurors Thursday at the death-penalty trial of al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

The second phase of the sentencing trial — to determine whether Moussaoui deserves execution or life in prison — opened Thursday. Early on, prosecutors played videos of the two hijacked jetliners hitting the gleaming World Trade Center towers. They also showed videos of people plunging more than 80 stories to their deaths and punctuated their presentation with family photos of loved ones.

Each hour the emotional impact grew.

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani retold the now-familiar tale of his own harrowing experience in debris-choked Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. But it was not until he spoke of the daughter of one of his closest aides, Beth Petrone Hatton, that Giuliani's voice quaked and broke. Firefighter Terence S. Hatton — who earned 19 medals in 21 years — died without knowing his wife was pregnant.

One female juror looked stricken. The rest hung motionless on Giuliani's every word.

Even Moussaoui, who had affected a look of boredom during the showing of video of falling bodies, watched the ex-mayor intently as he described Terry Hatton, who was born May 15, 2002. Her picture with Giuliani flashed on the screen.

Then came retired firefighter Anthony Sanseviro, whose co-worker Danny Suhr died after he was hit by a body falling from one of the towers: "It was like a missile coming in."

As a photo was shown of Suhr with his daughter, Briana, Sanseviro described how Suhr's wife and childhood sweetheart, Nancy, has struggled to bring her up without him.

He was followed to the stand by James Smith, a 21-year veteran of the New York Police Department with a 6-year-old daughter, Patricia. His wife, Moira, also a police officer, was bringing a woman with asthma down from the third floor of the South Tower when it collapsed on them.

"Moira was a gung-ho police officer, who took chances and made a lot of arrests, until Patricia was born," he said. "She went from street narcotics to community policing. She decided she wanted to be a mother even more than a police officer."

Leaving court at day's end, Moussaoui shouted, "No pain, no gain, America."