Jodi Arias convicted for murder will get deliberations by Monday whether she will get the death penalty or life in prison.
ABC News reported that the Maricopa County Superior Court jury in Phoenix didn't arrive to a decision to the case. Thus, the case went to recess last Friday.
According to the same source, if the new jury deadlocked or they might not to arrive with a unanimous decision, there might be a possibility that the case will be lowered from death penalty since this might be taken away from the options, therefore, resulting to lifetime imprisonment wherein she will be released after 25 years.
Arias was convicted from murder after murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander last June 2008 in Phoenix home. She was convicted in 2013, however, until now, the set of jurors remained undecided to her fate. In addition to what was being said, she was already found guilty of the first-degree murder done to Alexander and the jury find no problem determining that the committed crime was exceptionally cruel, and Jodi's methods of killing was really manipulative and brutal. But, the jury still find it hard to determine the penalty for the case.
Diane Schwartz, one of the sitting jury in the Arias' original trial said that they find it really hard to find with a common decision in a death penalty case. Though she really wished that the 34-year-old former waitress to be penalized with death after the brutal murder she committed to her former boyfriend.
She said, "It was a job we have to do and we couldn't get it done ... When you are an individual that likes your job, and works hard at it, and we failed or couldn't get it done - it impacts you - and that's exactly what it did to me."
She also expressed her fears to the accussed. Schwartz cited, "Jodi Arias scares me - she really scares me. I think that if Jodi had gotten away with this, it could have easily happened again." With the penalty that Arias deserved, she added, " ... I would like to see the death penalty, however, what I've learned in the process is that while I support the death penalty, and I want it to happen, I know how hard it is."
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