You know how I really don’t like to cover the true-crime stuff, right? I guess I’m missing that (oh so American) gene of “enjoying the minutiae of endless, highly publicized court cases”. But we covered some of the Amanda Knox stuff, so let’s talk about Jodi Arias. Jodi Arias was accused of killing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in a really excessively brutal murder in 2008. Jodi’s story changed several times, but during her trial, she settled into a version of the story in which she admitted killing Alexander, but she claims it was self-defense because he was abusing her.
Well, the jury came back yesterday and they found her guilty of first-degree murder, which could lead to a sentence of life in prison or the death penalty. The sentencing part of the trial begins today, and God knows how long it will go on. Arias seemed rather stone-faced as the jury foreperson read the verdict. Then, 20 minutes after the verdict was read, Arias sat down for an interview with the local Fox affiliate and OMG. This woman is cray.
Just 20 minutes after the jury announced a verdict of first degree murder that could land Jodi Arias on death row, the now-convicted murderer opened up about the decision in an exclusive interview with FOX 10 News in Phoenix and RadarOnline.com has the footage. Despite facing the possibility of death by lethal injection, the 32-year-old said that execution is not her greatest fear.
“The worst outcome for me would be natural life, I would rather die sooner rather than later,” she revealed. “Longevity runs in my family and I don’t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place. I am pretty healthy, I don’t smoke, and I would probably live a long time.
“I said years ago I’d rather get death than life and that still is true today. I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I’d rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it,” she said, in an eerie statement so soon after being convicted of the cold-blooded murder of former boyfriend Travis Alexander.
“I don’t know that I have a direct message for the jury. I prayed constantly for every single one of the them and that was the jury that was brought to me, that is the jury I was meant to have,” said Arias.
“I think I just went blank… I just feel overwhelmed. I think I just need to take it a day at a time. It was unexpected for me. There was no premeditation on my part,” she still claimed, speaking calmly and controlled in a holding cell below the Maricopa County Court.
“I didn’t expect the premeditation. I could see maybe the felony murder because of how the law is written, but the whole time I was fairly confident that I wouldn’t get premeditation.”
When asked how she felt about some of the jurors not believing her story, she replied, “I can understand that I think, because of the lies that I told in the beginning,” said Arias, seemingly to choose her words carefully. “To try to cover up this, cover up that. Hide things that I didn’t want to be known.”
Arias was then asked to give a message to the Alexander family, to which she stated, “I hope now that a verdict has been rendered they are able to find peace… some sense of peace. I don’t think they will ever find the peace that they would like.
“But maybe they will be able to find great peace now, or some semblance of it and move on with their lives and remember their brother the way they want to.”
During her endless hours of testimony on the stand, Jodi went into verbal combat with prosecutor Juan Martinez and is now able to finally reveal her opinion of him, telling FOX 10: “Prior to trial I had respect for Juan,” but said in the end it didn’t go far for her case.
In hindsight, if she could do it all over again when she was in the desert with blood on her hands, Arias said she would, “Turn around and drive to the Mesa police department. I don’t know (what would happen) but it would have been the right thing.”
People from around the globe have expressed their hatred for Arias on social media and cheers of glee rang out outside the courtroom after the verdict was read, but she is still torn on what she believes the public opinion is of her.
“I get the sense that there is great division on both side but I believe the majority is against me… I hear things but I get no access to the news or Internet,” she said.
New inmates come up and want to meet her, shake her hand and even get her autograph, said the criminal celebrity who seemed to relish her time in the spotlight during the four month trial.
After the interview with Troy, Jodi Arias was moved into the psych ward for 24-hour suicide watch. The sentencing phase will begin Thursday at 1 p.m. and the same jury of eight men and four women will return to the Phoenix courtroom to decide if she gets the death penalty.
If she bluffing? Does it matter? I kind of hope that the jury calls her bluff and sentences her to death. If that’s what she wants, f—k it. Let her have it. People assume that I’m anti-death penalty because I’m a political liberal, but my only problem with the death penalty is when it’s applied too subjectively. I can’t stand all of the sympathy that Arias is going to garner just because she’s an attractive white woman, and if she doesn’t get the death penalty, it will be because of that.
Photos courtesy of Google Images.
I don’t think they’ll give her the death penalty but I could be wrong. It just seems to me like juries have a hard time sentencing women to death (and I’m not trying to make this a man vs woman thing, honest.)
Who was the last American woman sentenced to death in the US? I can’t remember.
Last execution of a woman in the US was September 23, 2010. Juan Martinez has successfully put a woman in Arizona on death row before. The state has to prove cruelty beyond a reasonable doubt and the crime scene shows that. She delivered 3 fatal injuries and 26 other non-lethal stab wounds the course of two minutes. It was brutal and horrifying.
Thanks for the info, I was looking online but my office’s Internet policy kept blocking a lot of the results. 🙁
2.5 years isn’t that long ago, really…so maybe she will get the death penalty after all. It’s not as if she doesn’t deserve it.
There are four women on death row in Arizona right now.
I agree.
Didn’t check, but the state of Oklahoma put Wanda Jean Allen to death a couple of years ago. That’s also the state that carried out three executions in one day. And two of the three were brothers. Jodi should consider herself lucky she didn’t commit this crime in a Southern state.
She has been so smug throughout the trial. The tweeting, the attitude with the prosecutor, the constant lies. Trying to sell artwork.
She makes a mockery of the women who have to live through abuse.
At the end of the day, whether she gets the death penalty or a life sentence, I hope she never gets to enjoy a moment of freedom. She is a complete piece of work.
AMEN
^+100!! Well said!
Erinn
she makes a mockery of the women that have to live though abuse… Yes! I can’t stand it when women wrongfully claim they’re being abused to justify a crime. And for that matter I can’t stand it when women wrongfully claim to have been abused or date raped. It just makes it harder for those that have been to be believed. She is a piece of work and I bet she’s loving the attention. If she gets life I hope there’s a ban on news reporters and visitors. They’ll only feed her neurosis by making her think people still talk about her.
Oh, I definitely believe she’s loving the attention. That’s what she thrives on. Alexander’s attention started heading to someone else and all hell broke loose.
What about Eileen the serial killer in FL?
I was not able to follow that one. I just wiki’ed it and it’s pretty interesting. I was only 12 when she got the lethal injection. I do not feel bad for her first kill- he was a convicted rapist. However, I do not know the background on the other men. I will have to look into this after work.
She says she welcomes death (death penalty) as the ultimate freedom?
Well, now she has about 10-12 years to savor the anticipation of that freedom.
You reap what you sow, baby, reap what you sow.
🙂 Juatice.
correct! She’s a insane. Give her death, but let her sweat it out for twenty years before that happens.
I can’t believe she is still trashing Travis on this interview after she has just been convicted, calling him a hypocrite and a pedophile. The interviewer even looked disgusted as she said that and he quickly went on to another question. I hope she never gets another chance to ever get in front of another camera for an interview.
I honestly didn’t pay much attention to this one at all. What was she tweeting?? There does seem to be something a little off with her.
I’m not sure how much sympathy this woman is going to garner from the court of public opinion, or the legal courts, for that matter. Murderess aside, she’s a tremendously unlikeable person.
You can tell from her statements to the press and her testimony given in court that she’s intelligent and very well spoken. The girl’s no dummy. But she’s also that person who thinks she’s the smartest one in the room, which I believe was ultimately her undoing in this case, and will be her undoing in the sentencing phase of the trial. Nobody likes a smug know it all, especially one who left someone she claimed to have loved in pieces in her shower.
Sociopaths tend to think they are smarter than everyone in the room. That is usually their undoing. Oh and Namcy Grace was on CNN this morning and she said it has been 83 years or was it 23? Sorry can’t remember which since Arizona has sentenced a woman to death. I am for the death penalty because if you are a victim of this person or are connected to them on someway or maybe even a potential future victim you can never feel 100% safe from them as long as they walk this Earth. They could escape, a sentence could be commuted, laws can change, etc.
I followed the trial and it was clear that she LOVED the attention and she LOVED the graphic violence of what she did. Even in the police interrogation, she was “morbidly curious” about seeing Travis’s death photos, asked to see them. Then during the trial she looked at the stab, slash, blood, bruise and gun wounds every single time they were shown. In a long trial like this, those graphic photos where shown many times. And each time she peeked her head up to see her handiwork. I believe this interview shows how proud she is of what she’s done.
She gets excited, almost smiles when she says “I hope the family can remember Travis the way they want to.” Then looks down, because it’s a lie.
She knows her lying testimony tried to ruin his reputation. She wants her revenge picture of Travis as a bad man to be the one memorialized. She spends a lot of time in the interview talking about what a hypocrite Travis was and trying to give details to the reporter to convince him that her version of Travis is the true one. She feels no remorse, only vindication. In her mind the trial showed what a cheater and a liar Travis was.
Unfortunately for Jodi, and the problem for all psychopaths is, their extreme insane thinking (i.e. stabbing someone 39 times because they don’t take you on a promised vacation) undermines their logic. Yes, Jodi, Travis lied to you and broke up with you. No Jodi, you don’t get to stab him 39 times and shoot him in the head for it. Jodi is both smart and stupid, she is a very smart psychopath, which means a very stupid human being, a half human, half monster. Lock her up forever.
@candigirl – Yep, you summed it up great. Just want to add that I think the reason she asked for the death penalty was solely to put it back on the jurors.
This is the first time she has been held accountable in her life and she was pissed and pissed at the jurors.
In essence she is saying, if I am put to death, you the jurors are at fault. She still doesn’t get it, that her actions brought her to this place. Not the jurors or all the other people she has blamed for numerous things in her sad and pathetic life.
It has been 83 years since a woman has actually been executed in Arizona, but there are currently 4 women on death row in the state.
She comes up with all of these eloquent words and then says…crap.
…” People assume that I’m anti-death penalty because I’m a political liberal…”
On a principle I’m against it too.
However I make exeption for serial killers, serial rapists and serial child abusers.
If someone gets convicted for a certain crime more than once it’s clear for me he/she doesn’t want re-socialisation or second chance or whatever. I see them as vermin and a lost tax money to keep them away for life.
By now it should be a known fact that death penality and death row are more expensive than keeping someone in prison for life.
Other than that: I always found it interesting how many are willing to end another persons life, even if this person is fundamentally disturbed.
Is anyone else against the death penalty not because of the ethical implications (although that still plays on my mind a bit – why lower yourself to the level of the killer in question?) but because being imprisoned for the rest of your life seems a considerably more severe punishment?
If I tried to put myself in the shoes of a person who has murdered/abused someone (or several people) and believes that they’re clever enough to get away with it, getting caught and facing the consequences of your actions must really be a kick in the teeth for people with a hugely inflated sense of superiority.
They’ll have to sit in a cell, 23 hours a day for the rest of their lives knowing that they *lost*.
And when it comes to child abusers, I say let the other inmates let rip.
Gah. I’m in a vengeful mood today. I need chocolate.
Well let me tell you an interesting story then. In a village about 20km away a serial rapist was set free. About 2 weeks later he abducted a 16 y. old, raped her for 2-3 days and then made her dig her grave. After it she had to lay in it and he poured gas on her and tried his lighter. Luckily for the girl it didn’t functioned. He got disturbed and ran for his life.
Girl is in treatment. That was 2 years ago. She’s still in treatment.
Now, if that was MY daughter I’ll end his poor sorry life very cheaply-with my own hands.
What would you do?
^ they only spend 23 hours a day in a cell if they are on death row or administrative segregation. I do think life in prison is worse but the confinement you are talking about is almost torture. People lose their minds. We need to interact with people. I’m glad she will be under the care of Sheriff Joe, “the toughest sheriff in the country”, she can continue to enjoy surplus food, work on a chain gang, and maybe live in tent city.
Too late for money to matter in her case. The bulk of the expense is pre trial and the guilt/innocence phase. As of April the state of Arizona has paid $1.7 million on her defense alone. However, it is a fairly good reason to end the death penalty across the board. Although the median cost is $1.26 million vs $740,000 for a non-capital case. It is expensive either way.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/death-penalty/us-death-penalty-facts/death-penalty-cost
If you are interested this is a good article on the evolutionary psychology behind people who get involved with trials and are willing to let the state take another persons life. It is about Amanda Konx but applies to pretty much any high profile case.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2013/04/amanda_knox_she_was_acquitted_of_the_meredith_kercher_murder_why_do_people.html
I’m a lifelong liberal raised by liberal parents who are very VERY pro-death penalty. I spent a good portion of my life adopting the same stance until I saw “After Innocence” and found out that 17 death row inmates had been released after the development of DNA testing. It made me realize how inherently flawed our judicial system is. I can’t imagine spending decades of my life in jail for a crime I didn’t commit, much less potentially facing death. Even given the fact that we now have access to DNA technology, there is still no guarantee that for every case, we’ll be able to obtain DNA evidence. I just can’t in good conscience condone or support potentially killing an innocent person. So for me, it’s not about the death penalty being “inhumane” in and of itself, nor is it so much a cost issue.
That being said, I’m not a huge anti-death penalty advocate and I completely understand how my parents and others may feel that if someone kills another, they should die. I get the “eye for an eye” approach I really do.
@Kitten: I absolutely agree with your statement. We live in an imperfect world with imperfect people running an imperfect justice system. Is one innocent life lost justification to continue the death penalty? Two? Three? How many?
Honestly, my mind flip flops on the matter often, with each bizarre case that makes it to the media (I swear I thought for sure that Casey Anthony would be executed and I relished the idea). While I know if it were my loved one who had been the victim of this crime and that I would absolutely be gunning for the death penalty, I’m not entirely convinced it would be the right decision in the end.
My humble belief is that the family of the murder victim should get to decided which end would give them the most peace. Death or life in prison. Personally, I wouldn’t want to know that the person who killed my child/sibling was still alive and breathing on this earth. But that is just me.
@:Kitten:
The point in my post is about the serial offenders.
I agree that in a single case there can be mistakes. But I’m talking about people convicted more than once, or linked to more than one victum.
I’ll always try re-socialisation, for some it works and they take their second chance. They’ll have to fight the databanks for the rest of their lives though.
But there are the ones who never ever consider changing a thing. They don’t value human life or human rights and I don’t see why I should value their life more than the life of their victums.
Plus, you never know if that won’t have a beneficial long term effect. Like having a second thoughts before commiting a crime.
P.S. DNA testing. Do you know how many crimes were solved after a broad screening? I’ve seen a film about it. The killer lived for app.25 years a very good life after abusing and killing 2 boys-7 and 10.
In every matter there are 2 sides. Besides I gather from your post that these people were convicted before DNA took the field.
“in hindsight, if she could do it all over again in the desert..” what an odd thing to write, that’s what she would like a do-over on? how about if she could do it all over again she just NOT DO IT..
She wouldn’t ever say it. She choose a terrible defense. Her lead attorney hated it and tried to leave quite a few times. I don’t think she will ever admit this fog isn’t real or that he wasn’t an abusive, pedophile that got so mad when she dropped the camera only one of them was going to be able to leave the house alive. A mitigation defense might have at least had a chance and she would have gotten murder 2 or manslaughter. Instead she chose justification thinking she was manipulitive and smart enough to out fox the jury.
If she hadn’t called and e-mailed him, sent flowers and a detailed letter to his grandparents saying she hopes they find who did this, made out with her alibi right after committing murder, calling the bishop to see if he was really dead, acted so callously at his memorial service, forged letters from Travis to her saying her was attracted to little children, lied to the police, told her nijia story, gave an interview to anyone that would listen, and generally hadn’t acted like a crazy psycopath and just turned herself in she is right she would have been way better off. It gave them too much ammo. I also think she probably poisoned the jury against her by lying straight to them and slandering the victim.
I really do believe she was shocked that she was found guilty. I think she truly believed that she was so special, so smart, she could fool them all.
Marie — I thought the same thing.
She’s pretty and if she isn’t sentenced it’s because of that. If she is she’ll have a group of supporters to free her.
list of all us female executions http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_women_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976
But is she really pretty? She was attractive in a cheap sort of way with that blond hair but I was shocked the first time I heard about this case and saw her photo. I couldn’t figure out what was all the interest because she is ugly and plain and washed out and mousey.
TG
She’s not gorgeous. She’s cute/pretty. I think a persons personality plays a big role in their attractiveness.. Because of that she’s an ugly person, but taking into account only her physical appearance and no thoughts on personality or level of craziness, she’s not bad looking.
I think she will get the death penalty and she so richly deserves it too.
this
I don’t think felons should be given a public forum and interviewed after they’ve been convicted of a crime. We didn’t need to know what she thinks now that the trial is over.
I don’t know why people refer to her as being attractive, maybe slightly as a blonde.
I don’t support the death penalty. I do support rotting away in a small jail cell for the next 60 years thinking about everything you’ve thrown away because you’re a crazy woman who murdered someone.
Which is great if you have any sympathy for your victim. But if you don’t, you get to sit around enjoying the attention of the reporters, the book deals, the lifetime movies, and get to live until old age with no remorse, no taxes, no rent, no cost for food.
My father recently worked it out that my widowed 90 year old grandmother, who has been making it on her own for nearly 20 years now, always on the edge of financial comfort, would be better off living in jail. No taxes, three squares a day, a roof over her head, opportunities for education and personal development…
It kills me to think that this trick might be living in better conditions than my dear nanny because as a society, it’s the best system we could come up with. Arias really deserves no such accommodations or “rewards,” such as they are.
Erinn, I understand what you are saying. But are convicted criminals in the States allowed to have such things as book deals and movies? I know that here in Canada, a person cannot make money off of a crime they have committed. It is illegal to do so.
Society is so fickle. In a few weeks time everyone will have moved on from Jodi Arias and have forgotten about her. I think 60 years in prison, being nothing but a distant faded memory in peoples minds, is the best punishment, in my own opinion of course.
@littlestar
No, you can’t financially benefit from a crime you’re convicted of in the US. I think the benefit here would be that because this woman is a psycho/sociopath, she will lap up any and all attention given to her story, as she has been up to this point.
For some reason she reminds me of Scott Peterson, and I’m sure he was flattered by having a handsome actor play him in a TV movie. I believe it’s that kind of ‘benefit’ she would reap.
This. I fortunately live in a country where the death penalty isnt an option.
I dont even understand how America allocates the death penalty. I have heard some truly heinous crimes where intent and pre meditation were established that didnt get the death penalty. And people who at most were accessories who did. I know that States are different but what a mess that judicial system must be if a guy would have got the injection if only he had committed the crime across the highway.
In for a penny, in for a pound if you help commit a murder or are committing a felony with someone who murders legally you are just as responsible. But almost all of them where the ones who to their victims life.
To be put to death it either has to during the commission of a felony (which her jury is split on) heinous (which the judge already threw out for this), cruel (which is what the state will try and prove today)’ or depraved after a murder 1 conviction. They jury will get instructions on the law and what the legal definition of a cruel murder is. They have to unanimously agree to the idea of cruelty beyond a reasonable doubt. But the state is paying for her to have a mitigation specialist so they can argue abuse, PTSD, battered women’s syndrome, probably now borderline personality disorder, whatever to get sympathy and explain her state of mind and why she might feel justified in what she did.
The only problem I have with the death penalty is it is so much more expensive then a life sentence. If she gets the death penalty she will have an automatic appeal and going by the Arizona average it will be dragged out in court for 12 years.
I’d rather not waste one more tax dollar on this piece of shit. I think she should fry, but she won’t, because she’s young and pretty and I think judges/juries often have a hard time reconciling heinous behavior with those (superficial) qualities.
I really wish trials didn’t turn into such circuses.
Due to the required appeals for a DP case, your tax dollars are spent either way. It’s actually more expensive to put someone to death than to sentence them to a life in prison.
Best case scenario someone murders her in prison. Minimize the amount of tax $ spent on her. Sociopathic biotch.
^this. She says she hopes for death because it’s “freedom”? She doesn’t deserve freedom from what she did- she deserves to live with it, up close and personal, for the rest of her very, very long life.
Since 2000, only 9 women have been executed in the US.
Forgot to add that I hope she is number 10
This woman is a textbook sociopath. Either punishment will be appropriate, but I hope she gets the death penalty because of the viciousness of the murder. She was in a jealous rage.
You are right she is text book. But then so is Kim KrapTrashian who she could look a lot like with the right makeup and a little surgery.
26 stab wounds usually indicates a spontaneous crime of passion rather than a premeditated intent to murder.
Except she stole a gun in preparation, made sure his guard was down by her usual method, had him in the position of vulnerability – wet, naked, sitting in a shower…. Then stabbed him 29 times. And for good measure nearly decapitated him. I’m guessing she fairly calmly shot him in the head. Her heat of passion runs as cold as ice.
I’m not so sure. On the surface it may appear to be a crime of passion, but she stole the gun, drove thousands of miles, dyed her hair, drove a rental car and took off the license plates and tried to create an alibi.
She may have had to stab him so many times, and shoot him and basically over-kill him because he was jacked on adrenaline and was fighting back and wouldn’t go down as quickly as she thought. I think she freaked out and keep going at him until she knew he was dead.
The 29 stab wounds, slashing the throat and shot to the head indicate rage and hatred for the victim, along with trashing his reputation to save her sorry life. The gas cans, car rental and turning off her cellphone indicate premeditation. We don’t see her kind of evil very often, and it should be extinguished from the earth. No problem with the death penalty for people as evil as she is.
Premeditation requires a moment of reflection, even if it’s just seconds, between the thought to cause death and the action. Throwing out everything that shows prior planning the first stab wound possibly in the heat of passion. The first wound was fatal even if she had done it in an operating room. He had about 3 minutes. He ambulated to the sink and stabbed him 9 times in the back with enough force to cause blood splatter, he somehow gets away and you can see the trial of blood. She knows she can’t let him get out of the house it was 5:30 people would have been around. As he tries to escape he is losing a lot of blood and strength and begins to fall down and crawl she comes up behind him grabs his head slits his throat ear to ear almost 4 inches deep, drags his body and shoots him in the head. Drags him into the shower to wash any DNA of hers off of him. Between the three fatal injuries she had time to reflect. She wanted him dead.
Her only two big mistakes were the bloody handprint and expecting the washer to destroy the camera. It seems crazy that she worked that hard to avoid being tied to Mesa just to have a nice, peaceful visit with an ex.
I’m into the death penalty for Jodi. Give the girl what she wants. I don’t want to pay for cold blooded murderers to eat and sleep in a warm bed.
I disagree she snapped and killed Travis (in a horrible way) in a the heat of the moment as she could not stand loosing him…but Travis was not an angel in their relationship (and there was this unhealthy dance between the two of them). she does not deserve death.
Casey anthony deserved the death penalty (killing her own defenless child? nothing is worse!!!)
Some crimes are so extreme it feels like that person shouldn’t be allowed on the planet anymore.
I agree though, it does seem very subjective to state, race and wealth as to whether you get the death penalty or not.
A wise person once said to me when you take away the person who committed the crime, where do the victim’s family focus their anger? They’re left with even more emptiness and grief.
Terrible sad situation for the Alexander family. I hope one day the sun comes back out for them.
Give the lady what she wants.
Perhaps she thinks asking the death penalty will make her seem mentally unstable and save her?
She’s all manipulation.
Or reverse psychology? I don’t know. It’s one thing to say you rather die then spend your life in prision, it’s a whole different situation walking to the execution chamber.
Hopefully the jury is following the rules and didn’t see this. I bet they are so ready to never, ever see her again. Over 4 months or trial, 17 of which were her lying, making excuses, and giving way too much information about every man she’s ever slept with. They are patient people.
I’m just happy she was found guilty of murder in the 1st. She brutally butchered an innocent man to death. At this point, just put her away. Life or death… Don’t care.
The sad thing is, she has some crazy fans. Have a look at her supporter site, it is scary crazy
I had to get of Radar this morning because people were supporting her and pushing the Alexander was a terrible person angle. It made me sick.
OK, so she stole the murder weapon from her grandparents’ house a week beforehand (no premeditation there!), stalked him on Facebook, slashed his tyres, had sex with him on the day of the murder – and took pictures! – then stabbed him 27-29 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head…
…then plead not guilty by reason of “self defence”?
Still, a jury acquitted Casey Anthony, so it was worth a try!
And on top of that, she killed him in the bathroom. It’s well known that everybody has a gun and a knife in their bathroom, just in case….
I’m technically against the death penalty… because you can’t take it back. Finding out an innocent person has been executed is a horror. However, in THIS case… OMG this woman!!
A simple injection seems too kind. But she simply does not deserve to be alive. There is no way she wants to die. If she did she would have done it already (she said she tried but it hurt so she stopped, but she doesn’t make the connection to how much pain her victim Travis must have gone through). She calls death the final release, hmmm. She probably thinks at least she’d get to be with Travis. If I was a true believer in heaven and hell, I’d say she’d be out of luck. They’d be in two different places in the afterlife.
She feels no remorse, everything is because of something else, it’s someone else’s fault. She’s still twisting the knife. With the comments about the family remembering their brother the way “they want to”. That he was a hypocrite. Still hanging on to the battered woman lie. She has the mental disconnect of psycho/sociopaths. Who knows if she’ll ever be accurately diagnosed.
She does not want to die and will file appeal after appeal. She does not wish this family peace, quite the opposite. It’ll always be all about her.
I’m on the fence with the death penalty. The death penalty automatically goes to appeal which is annoying (she won’t win) and she’ll still spend YEARS on DR. It will cost the state a ton of money. But Life we’ll all (as it’s federal prison) be paying for arse for years and b*tch will have better medical care than I do!
I usually don’t like to comment on crimes, but here you go…when there are so many stabs, it’s pretty clear the person who stabbed wants to “destroy” the victim.
This is what also bothers me in the Amanda Knox case. The number of cuts Meredith Kercher got. It’s very suspicious.
I hope that their families can find peace.
I feel the same way about the death penalty as Kaiser does.It is too subjective,most people given the death penalty in America are poor black men.In Colorado for instance a mentally ill black man was just given the needle 2 months ago for shooting and killing 2 white people randomly otside of a MCDonald’s in 1998.But the same Colorado prosecutors can’t decide whether to give the Batman shooter the death penalty.Why? We all know why,because he is white.If that Batman Aurora shooter was a poor black man they would not blink an eye on giving him the death penalty.The legal system is not fair or just in this country.
But none of that is actually true. 56% of people excited since 1976 were white. The more reliable prediction of race in death penalty cases is the race of the victim. If they are white you are 7x more likely to be exicuted. Not that the race of the defendant doesn’t matter, it always does. Sex of the defendant and where the murder takes place matter more though.
Also Nathan Dunlap had an attorney say he MIGHT be mentally ill and his lawyers showed incompetence for not ordering a full mental health evaluation. The case was reviewed by different judges at different levels for over a decade. He never in or out of prision had been diagonsed with anything and as far as I can tell never stated what disorder they thought he might have. He shot four people because he was fired from the resteraunt the teenage employees were walking out of after cleaning up for the night. Don’t waste you time feeling bad for him, the mental health thing was a stall tactic.
Also, they have charged James Holmes with capital murder. They spoke with the victims and evaluated all the mental health issues before deciding. His case is going to be a mess.
Arias is Mexican, or half Mexican.
There is something seriously wrong with her. I feel sort of sorry for the public defenders who had no choice about having to defend her.
This woman is very sick and i think that she truly started to believe her lies and how she is the “victim”. For me she snapped and killed Travis Alexander when he told her he was going to Cancun with another woman…He did not deserved to be murdered so brutally, but I think he has used Jody for sex (she used him too to keep him and make him love her).
I do not wish the death penalty for her…as I believe it was a horrible crime of passion (she is a liar too).
For my part, I think the Casey Anthony case is way worse as a complete innocent child was killed and I think casey Anthony deserved a harsher judgement than Jodi Arias….
Casey Anthony didn’t receive ANY judgement. Bitch walked free as a jay bird. I only wish she had met the same judgement as Arias.
If she wants to die then let’s save the tax payers some money and not support her ass for the next however many years, and give her what she wants. When you stab your man nearly 30 times, shoot him and slit his throat from ear to ear, then why should anyone have any regard for you.
I am a French in Europe there is no death penalty thankfully.
Contrary sending someone to death is much more expensive than keeping them alive…please do some research as it is too long to explain
@Laura: ITA, he definitly did not deserve to die. I do believe that he did screw with her emotionally & made her do a lot of sexually degrading & kinky things because he knew she was so desperate to please him and keep him. She converted to his faith & tried to please him in every way in hopes that he would marry her. He basically used her for a fun wild time and broke up with her and even boldly admitted that he would now only date “good, chaste” girls going forward *AKA* NOT A SLUT LIKE YOU WHO WOULD LET ME DO ANYTHING I WANT TO HER. There are plenty of men who do such douchey things to women whom they know they can get away with it, he just happened to pull his BS on a TOTAL PSYCHO. I think she has probably always had underlying mental/psychotic issues and this turn of events probably made them boil to the surface.
Again, this guy DID NOT deserve to die and especially so brutally, I cannot comprehend how she could love him and also do that to him, but then again…I’m not crazy.
Unfortunately for him, he pulled a Douche-Move on THE WRONG GIRL…poor guy.
I agree 100% with you ! Travis used Jodi for sex and she accepted the “sex” degradation and humiliation in hope that he will love her and marry her one day…she hope until she realized that would not happen and her psycho/anger/jealousy/passion took over….and Travis paid the heavy price.
Still do not deserve death…
I also have been following the Amanda Knox case and for me she is not innocent (but she is playing it well)…far from it. And I tired of seeing this woman writing books, cashing in, going on TV getting paid thousands and thousands of dollars and living freely when she participated in the crime of the awful killing of her roommate. And in that case nobody talk about the victim and her family and I feel so bad for them…
I used to think she was guilty based mostly on her actions after the murder but the prosecution has not been able to provide one single piece of evidence showing Amanda or her boyfriend were involved. No blood, dna, etc. They have blood, semen & DNA from the guy in jail who was convicted. So the fact that they could not gather even 1 tiny piece of evidence on either Amanda or Rafello combined with the fact that it was proven the lead prosecuter lied about alot of things in the trial makes me, based on the evidence alone, think she may be innocent. She is definitely a narcissist and doesnt come across very sympathetic which makes her look guilty but doesnt necessarily mean she is.
There was a famous case in Brazil of a young woman who planned her parents’ homicide. She was convicted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzane_von_Richthofen
There was tons of circumstantial evidence against Amanda though.
I read the entire case file at the truth for meristem website.
For example, the crime scene, the house Amanda lived in, was proven to be staged to LOOK like a break-in. Who other than a perpetrator who lives at a crime scene would want to make it look like someone had broken in if no had in fact broken in?
There was tons of circumstantial evidence against Amanda though.
I read the entire case file at the truth for merideth website.
For example, the crime scene, the house Amanda lived in, was proven to be staged to LOOK like a break-in. Who other than a perpetrator who lives at a crime scene would want to make it look like someone had broken in if no had in fact broken in?
The other roommates besides Amanda were far out of town that night and had alibis to back it up.
Amanda and Rafeal had different stories.
Amanda was witnessed by a shopkeeper early the morning after Amanda’s death waiting for his store to open so she could buy a mop and bucket.
There’s TONS more against her I just don’t have the time.
While I do think there are people who don’t deserve to live on this planet, I don’t believe in the death penalty. I hope she spends a very, very long life behind bars.
The coverage of this case is just further evidence that we really need to do away with 24 hour news stations. All they do is wildly speculate and give people like this woman the attention they crave so badly.
Exactly! Nancy Grace has made a fool of herself airing only this trial for 3 plus months and giving Jodi the attention she craves. Nancy took the bait, hook, line & sinker! And Jodi would Twitter about Nancy because she wanted Nancy to respond and again Nancy took the bait & looks like a complete fool for even giving Jodi the satisfaction.
Give her life without parole. No grounds for appeal. Die in prison. Done.
I know his family and friends would like her to receive death, frankly I agree.
I don’t think this crime was a crime of passion like some people are saying this was a cold blood premedited murder. Jodi was on a mission that day and if she couldn’t have Travis no one would she made sure his roommates were not home she made sure she would be the only one who was a alive that day. She deserved to die for what she did to Travis she slaughtered him over and over again .
All i see is rachel mcadam’s face. the tone of voice and mannerisms are really similar too
Rachel is beautiful Jodi is not and Rachel is not a nutjob .
What struck me seeing her guilty verdict on TV, was the reaction of her family members, how they were actually thinking Jodi was going to be found not guilty. Jodi Arias shot her boyfriend, stabbed him 3o times then slit his throat from ear to ear and they really thought she should go free for committing such a heinous crime? A man sitting among her family members,maybe her dad, had a cold hard look on his face and you wonder why Jody Arias is the way she is? The strategy of her defense was to keep her from getting fried, that is why they had her testify for almost 18 days,a jury familiar with a defendant most likely would not recommend the death penalty. Jodi is a perfect example of a sociopath to the very end trying to control and psyche the jurors by saying she wants the death penalty no she does not! Her whole defense was to keep her alive and her actions show she wants to live. She is selling her underwear and drawings on the web. They need to vote to fry her a**.
I doubt she willl get the death penalty because she is an attractive white female. Our system is so screwed up.
ETA: That being said, I don’t support the death penalty for *anyone*…
I’m usually against the death penalty. The chance that the wrong person may be executed makes me hesitant to support something as permanent as death but my level of loathing for this woman is making everything in me say fry the bitch!
“…white woman.” I’m going to assume she’s probably Hispanic judging by her last name, Arias.
Hispanics are racially considered to be Caucasian.
Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. There are white (Salma Hayak), black ( Zoe Saldana) and Asian Hispanics (Bruno Mars). Jodi Arias seems to me to be a white Hispanic.
can ariel castro from Cleavland get the death penalty please? Murder is terrible but 10 YEARS of torture is unthinkable
I’m with you, squeakie. First words out of my mouth when I heard were, “He should be put to death”.
Under Ohio law it is possible if they can prove that he killed the five other fetuses
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2903.01 et seq. (2002) define aggravated murder, murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, negligent homicide, aggravated vehicular homicide, aggravated vehicular assault, felonious assault, aggravated assault, assault and negligent assault. The law applies to a person, which includes an “unborn member of the species Homo sapiens, who is or was carried in the womb of another.”
And Ohio is a death penalty state.
Thank you squeakie, i couldn’t agree more.
I wonder, if she’d ever had a chance to finish her education and improve her life, would she have fallen apart this way over a man?
Also, this should be a lesson to women who keep trying to play the “battered woman” card. It may not always work. You might get thrown in jail anyway!
I am one of those people that followed this case, I tried to not watch any of the sideline stuff, like the mock juries that were held every night. I saw her testimony and I also watched a lot of the cross from Juan Martinez. I believe she was her worst enemy, from giving pre-trial interviews and saying she was innocent and that no jury would convict her. The problem was she couldn’t shut up and she really thinks she is so much smarter than everybody else. During the cross with attorney Martinez you could see the real Jodi, she was smug and laughing at him! You don’t do that when you are trying to garner sympathy but she couldn’t stop herself, she really does not get it that she was caught and that she left so much evidence behind. I am not for the death penalty, but if she wants to gain “freedom” then give it to her.
I followed the trial as well. You’re totally right. I was astonished by how she cooked her own goose so to speak by acting so smug and superior with the prosecutor. I think that supports the borderline personality disorder theory. I mean, whatever small chance she had she blew by acting superior. Very disturbing to watch.
She is not attractive.
Well, no, she is not attractive, she is also uneducated. How do women like this get men? I don’t understand.
she needs to fry! She continues to blame everyone else for what happened! Never once did she have any remorse or say sorry etc… she is a nutjob ,she loves attention .I hope they send this crazy nutjob to death row were she belongs!
I dont think she is lying when she says she wants the death penalty. She is a self absorbed, narcissist and now that the trial is over & she wont be getting all the attention she craves & will basically be forgotten and left to rot i think she would prefer death.
I live in one of the most liberal states (CA) and time and time again we have voted to keep the death penalty active.
For those of you that cry that the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison, that is a twisting of facts. It cost pennies to execute someone versus keeping them in jail for the rest of their life in Arizona. What costs the state money are the numerous appeals and court fees. I agree with the earlier post that people in prison have easy lives- free medical, free food, free cable- costs the rest of us have to foot.
I have first hand knowledge that though it happens, it’s rare that innocent people will get the death penalty. There are so many layers built into the legal system that will keep an innocent from receiving the death penalty.
Though I am socially liberal, I am a huge proponent of the death penalty and now more so than ever after my family was a victim of a horrific murder.
Coincidentally, Jodi Arias’s trial is the reason why the trial for the crimes against my family has been pushed back 8 months so i say give her the death penalty and be done with her.
There are some people in this world that are so violent, so evil and lack basic human compassion that society has no choice but to be done with them. Vengeance is something that society needs from time to time if for no other purpose than to keep us sane.
I know whats its like to sit in a courtroom and stare murderers in the face and though direct vengeance against those responsible isn’t feasible, I would like to be able to watch those murderers die so I can have some closure and peace.
“You should not kill” period…no one has the right to terminate and decide on death or life on another humanbeing…I am proud to be european for that matter, the death penalty should not exist.
Well I’m happy for you and your European elitism and being above what some of us consider justice against the worst of society.
There only one problem with the death penalty and that is that it’s not utilized enough.
I was hit.
I walked far away.
Statistically, attractive white women DO receive lesser sentences.
She deserves to die. But a worse punishment is growing old and ugly (why do people describe her as beautiful?) and facing years of nothing, of no hope. Life with no parole.
what bothers me about death penalty is after someone is dead they find there innocent. IT has to be absolute & in this case I do believe that it is absolute. I have followed this trial something I don’t normally do either & this death was extremely cruel. Cannot be self defense. You don’t shoot someone in the head with a fatal shot then decide to cut there throat & follow that with some twenty something stabbings in a back & call it self defense. In there somewhere you had an opportunity to get away.
She is extremely smart and well spoken as one said and watching her she has never once shown remorse of any kind even in her latest interview, always uses one tone of voice & zilch for emotion. To me you can see as she speaks she is always thinking about her next plan or words. IT’s a game of some kind. IT’s past outsmart outwit. Now under suicide watch & in a cray cray cell playing the game. Court now called off till next WED. What will her next plan be. You know something is coming. Maybe her defense team has walked as she had set up that interview without there knowledge. Her male defense lawyer is on record saying he don’t like her.. So much in this case boggles the mind
According to the experts, she will have many more resources and a nicer life on death row, so I hope she receives life instead.
This woman really deserves whatever the Alexander family wishes for. Too bad she cant be tied to a post in the center of town where rocks could be handed to the public and thrown at her till she is dead. Disgusting excuse for a human being she is.
Death to the wicked witch…..one life for another….good riddance
She is a savage murderer and an adroit liar. No way does this woman want to die! I think whats really got her – is Martinez got it so right, She is a STALKER! If this was a HE instead of a SHE- the description of STALKER every time the murderers name was mentioned would be a given. This murderous stalker got rejected and THAT is the reason Travis Alexander was slaughtered by her. I hope the jury quickly gives her the death penalty. And finally society will just turn away from her- no more attention at all. Death penalty for the “wildabeast”.