Update: Jodi Arias Jury Is Deadlocked
"For the sake of my family at this point, yes that is my hope." That was Jodi Arias' response when a reporter from the Associated Press asked her if she was hoping the jury would come back with life in prison and not sentence her to death.
Yesterday the jury was sent to deliberate the fate of Jodi Arias. The jury has three possible choices to make. They could sentence Jodi Arias to life in prison, they could come back undecided or they could sentence Jodi Arias to death.
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After Jodi Arias was convicted of murdering her former lover Travis Alexander she went on TV and told reporters that she would rather be sentenced to death because to her death equaled freedom.
In her first TV interview, since the jury went to deliberate, Jodi Arias has said that she does not want to die and that she deserves a second chance, if not for her own sake but the sake of her family.
"The same day I was convicted my family came to see me and it was very tearful," Arias said. "My cousin said something to me right before she left, she said, and she was implying suicide, she said don't do anything, she said just don't do that to your mom."
Arias said she realized that if she asked the jury for death it would be the same thing as committing suicide and she does not want to hurt her family in that way. Arias said that if she is sentenced to death she will take it day by day and go through the necessary appeals process in order to stop her execution.
If she is sentenced to life in prison Arias said she will spend that time trying to figure to help people. Arias plans on donating her hair to make wigs for cancer patients and also try to help victims of domestic abuse.
On Tuesday Jodi Arias stood up in front of the jury and asked to be given a second chance. Again she pleaded with the jury not to sentence her to death and cause further pain to her family.
"I am asking you please, please, don't do that to them. I've already hurt them so badly, along with so many other people. I want everyone's healing to begin and I want everyone's pain to end."
The jury deliberating the fate of Jodi Arias reconvened today. Trial watchers, as well as members of the Arias and Alexander families are waiting to learn the fate of Jodi Arias.
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