A Phoenix judge read a note from jurors in the Jodi Arias trial saying: "In my assessment, we are hung, and additional time will not change this." The judge herself will now decide whether Arias should get a life sentence or should have the possibility of release after 25 years. The judge declared a mistrial. It was the second time that a jury, charged to decide whether Arias should die or serve life in prison, could not come to a decision. In court in Phoenix, relatives of the victim, Travis Alexander, sobbed.
The judge set a new sentencing date for April 13. The decision on Thursday takes the death penalty off the table and leaves the judge to sentence the 34-year-old to either life in prison or a life term with the possibility of release after 25 years, The Associated Press reported. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 over the death of Travis Alexander, 30, who was found dead in his home in Mesa. The first jury charged with sentencing her could not reach a decision.
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