Why wasn’t the Death Penalty listed as an option on your poll?
As I understand, AZ has three women now on the state back burner (no pun intended) , and there is a very good chance Jodi will be served up as #4
There is some speculation that the death penalty may have been bargained away among jurors in favor of the consensus needed for a murder one conviction. I’m not sure if that actually happens but there you go.
Her post conviction interview is on now. She’s still saying she prefers the death penalty, which she has been saying since even before she admitted she was ever there, never mind that she had actually killed him. She said it again when she was claiming yes, she was there, but a home invasion occurred and that’s how he died; she said if she were “wrongly convicted” she would prefer death over a life sentence.
The reporter conducting the interview is entertaining her “I was in a fog and ‘woke up’ in the desert with blood on my hands” bullshit. Shameful. And she’s still claiming there was no premeditation.
She wants to die, the jury should accomodate her.
She’s a bad, bad, bad woman who butchered a guy whose worst fault was his poor taste in girlfriends.
I kept seeing her name pop up in headlines. Never bothered to find out what she did. So yesterday, I saw the headline that she was found guilty and I thought what I posted. It just struck me as funny that so much attention was being paid to what I assume is a simple case of murder; one person I 've never heard of killed another person I’ve never heard of. I was going to post a thread, but did a search to see if anyone was talking about her here and found this one. I thought my comment might be considered TS-ing, but I didn’t have time to explain. It’s not; I just had to get it out. 
I checked this thread for the same reason - I have heard her name, but when I have caught snippets of what was being discussed in the case, it sounded like a blatent murder that she was trying to evade conviction on that got titillating when some of her personal communications got aired. Beyond that, I have not understood why this case has warranted any publicity…
Too funny not to share here - Jon Stewart’s take on the Arias trial and Nancy Grace.
It’s hard to say why some cases get blown way up and some don’t. There was another self-defense gone wrong case in Florida that I saw on TruTV (before they switched almost completely to fake towing shows and security cam footage) that I had never heard of before they broadcast it.
But with Jodi Arias; 1) She’s cute, 2) Their were a lot of extremely salacious sexcapades involved from two Mormons, as well as stalking behavior up to crawling through a doggie door 3) Jodi seemed to go of her way trying to attract media attention, and 4) The whole epic road trip and Jodi’s wild, ever changing stories.
I agree with all those reasons, but I think the main thing is more a combination of your #1 and the the level of brutality and overkill of the murder. Sure, there have been some brutal female murderers, but few as young and relatively attractive as Arias.
I managed to watch her presentation to the court today. I doubt her claims to want to do nothing but good things with her life from now forward will sway any of the jurors, but one never knows.
Did anyone else see it? Anyone want her to have opportunities to run thru a field of flowers (without being chased by hounds and a posse) after hearing her?
I guess it is love, she never said “I’m sorry”
Her speech did make me realize more than ever how fucked up in the head she is. I don’t see how the jury can give her the death penalty now and take her hair away from those poor little sick kids.
Holy crap, her statement. A recycling program? REALLY? How kind of her to be so willing to help those poor, illiterate convicts and how lucky of them to be given the opportunity of being in the presence of somebody so much better than they are. Oh, a book club. So they can learn to elevate their thinking, or whatever the fuck she said.
Christ.
And, wow, her family photos will now consist of nothing more than her entire family with somebody holding her portrait because she can’t be there. And how hurtful it will be for her parents if the jury gives her the death penalty. And, OH NO, she’ll never be a mother.
I missed Juan’s closing argument (and the defense closing argument, for the most part, and their rebuttal) but if it didn’t include things like “Hmm… I wonder what the Alexander family portrait looks like now?” and “Hey, how many fucks did she give when Travis was begging for his life?” and “Did she give a shit how his parents would feel while she was cutting off his head?” I’m going to be just a little disappointed.
There is also the relative rarity of a defendant getting on the stand to defend themselves. Defense attorneys usually try to avoid that. But it makes for good tv.
I keep seeing this topic and misreading it as “Jedi Arias”.
I’m sorry, what now?
I was in what I believe to be more or less the same boat as** Johnny L.A. **- vaguely aware that there was a trial, hadn’t been following it but then buzz filtered into my brain enough that I thought “There’s that thread. I’ll just read that.” And now I have, and instead of doing the work I should be doing right now I’m stuck in my brain.
Hey gwen, if you ever cut off someone’s head…See suddenly it’s becoming a flow chart A) Speculation is pointless. I could never… or B) You mean if I ever cut off someone’s head, and got caught?
But let’s say for the sake of argument I did, and I did. To what extent would I be willing to make myself look like a monumental jackass in hopes of being acquitted. Probably fair to say pretty far. BUT, how broken would my thinking have to become so that I’d think a book club would be a persuasive argument?
I’m baffled, because even in the most mundane of situations where I’ll be presenting an argument I go through my facts and try and imagine how the other person will hear them. Did this defendant reason through these points and think “totally solid.”? Or is there part of her brain thinking “I know it’s ridiculous but it’s the only thing I can think of”
Golly. All I’d intended to post was “Blast you all for piquing my interest. Now I’m going to have to go read about this case!”
In her speech she said she’d spend the rest of her life donating her hair to make wigs for kids undergoing chemotherapy. Surely her life should be spared for that reason alone. Add to that her prison recycling program, I’m sure prisoners are throwing away lots of valuable things. I don’t see how anyone so thoroughly dedicated to community service could be executed.
Since hair keeps growing after death that won’t be a problem.
I haven’t seen in their entirety any of her recent interviews following the lift of the ban the judge had imposed. I did see a short clip with a guy saying, “So you’re never going to tell the truth about what happened in that bathroom… ?” and her replying, “I don’t understand what you mean. I did tell the truth. I didn’t know you were a hater when I set up this interview.”
She’s crazy in a “not legally insane and therefore competent to stand trial but still… CRAZY” sort of way.
May be the little sick girls need fingernails too.
Also, take a look at the charityshe wants to contribute to.