Posted on 05/09/2013 12:05:58 AM PDT by lbryce
Jodi Arias says she would rather receive the death penalty than a long prison sentence after she was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday, calling death "the ultimate freedom."
In an exclusive interview with MyFoxPhoenix.com, Arias says she was shocked by the verdict.
"I think I just went blank," Arias said. "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."
Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in self-defense.
Jodi Arias says she would rather receive the death penalty than a long prison sentence after she was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday, calling death "the ultimate freedom."
In an exclusive interview with MyFoxPhoenix.com, Arias says she was shocked by the verdict.
"I think I just went blank," Arias said. "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."
Arias spent 18 days on the stand sharing intimate, emotional and oftentimes X-rated details of her life before a rapt television and online audience. She had hoped it all might convince a jury that she killed her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in self-defense.
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When first interviewed by 20/20 you said you'd never be convicted because the murder was a case of self-defense. WRONG! You had hoped talking up your self-defense plea would help convince the public you were innocent. You were convicted for the very reason it wasn't self-defense.
Now, once again, you're playing your transparent little mind games by claiming you prefer the death sentence, hoping the jury will give a life sentence.
Wrong again.
The jury will end up sending you to the electric chair precisely because you're trying to fool them into thinking that's exactly what you want, when they're up to your little games knowing you prefer life.
There is one sure-fire way to find out if she means it. Take her off suicide watch; whatever happens happens.
Don’t throw me in the briar patch, anything but that.
Her death will be more merciful than her victim’s.
Talk is cheap.
She is doing reverse psychology..she thinks by saying this the jury will feel sorry for her..they convicted her of 1st degree murder..she is gonna get the needle..if she wanted to die so badly she would have killed herself years ago
If it weren’t for Benghazi and Gosnell,
there wouldn’t be so much focus on this case
I hadnt heard anything about this case until yesterday
I don’t know how you could have missed it. It’s been covered for weeks by every outlet imaginable.
She’s trying reverse psychology not to get the jury to feel bad for her but hoping they’ll want to “punish” her by giving her the exact opposite of what she wants: life in prison.
Socio-psychopath.
And the media loves it.
I agree, send her to the Lord ASAP for Him to do with as He see’s fit.
Crazy manipulative b!tch is trying to psych the jury into giving her life instead of death.
I say give her death.
Then let her live with it hanging over her head for the next 20 years while the system does its thing.
A search of "Arias" on FreeRepublic shows that the earliest entry was May 8, 2013.
Yesterday. At 4:49 PM.
And the majority of people on those earliest threads have never heard of Jodi Arias either. But apparantly it has gotten a lot of attention on HLN.
No more road trips or Starbucks for Jodi :-) Not once did she show any remorse during that interview, instead she made snide remarks to the Alexander family, and blamed the prosecutor for being “shady”.
Either the death penalty or LWOP would work for me, just so she’s never free again. She’s cray cray!
Now that said, there are some women, like this one, who definitely need to be removed from society. But they should not be locked away in steel cages in some harsh prison-type environment. I'm thinking more of a softer, campus-like environment, sort of like a dorm at a college, only with a barbed wire fence around it (no woman would attempt to scale a barbed wire fence). We could put them four to a room but make sure they have plenty of throw pillows and soft mattresses to sleep on.
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