Arias death penalty case - Once again, the shocking details of Jodi Arias' sex life was put under the spotlight Tuesday as a new jury started a retrial tor the sentence she should receive. Her legal team began fighting for her life on whether she should be sentenced with a life imprisonment or death penalty for her murder conviction.
The Huffington Post reported the vivid details of the sex games, the role playing and the dirty pillow talk that came directly from the defendant's lips in 18 days of testimony aired on national television. The sensational Arias' death penalty case is about a woman convicted for the brutal murder of her ex-boyfriend in 2008.
Jodi Arias pursued to convince the jury that she was an emotionally and physically abused woman, forced to surrender to her boyfriend's every craze. Based on a CNN report, Arias shot 30-year-old Travis Alexander in the head, knifed him over two dozen times, cut his throat from ear to ear and left his body on the floor of his shower on the night of June 4, 2008.
Prosecutors have been calling Arias callous and merciless. They depicted her as a liar and a narcissist, who was obsessed with the man who tried to break up with her.
The five-month-long murder trial in Phoenix ended after 15 hours of deliberations. In May 2013, the jury found Arias guilty of first-degree murder, although they deadlocked on whether to send her to the death row.
ABC News reported the death penalty case of Jodi Arias' retrial began Tuesday with both sides promising it would be just as shocking and gruesome as last year's murder trial. The prosecution started the case with a lurid photo of Arias' ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander's throat slit.
"This is how much she loved him," Prosecutor Juan Martinez said as he showed the photo within minutes of the retrial. And he ended his opening statement by telling the jury, "The only just punishment in this case is death."
Defense Attorney Kirk Nurmi contended that Arias' case shouldn't put her on the death penalty for the reason that the suspect has been diagnosed with both post-traumatic stress disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder. The defense called their client a troubled and mentally ill young woman.
"She will tell you how mortified she was that she killed the man that she loved," Nurmi told the jurors.
As said by Reuters, Nurmi did not say whether the 34-year-old ex-waitress Arias would take the stand or whether the jurors would be shown a replay video of her earlier appearance on the witness stand.
The seat of the new jury took roughly three weeks to establish from the pool of about 400 people. Arias' murder case awaits three possible fates: death penalty, life imprisonment or life with eligibility of parole after 25 years.
According to Maricopa County Attorney's Office spokesperson Jerry Cobb, a death penalty case necessitates a unanimous vote by the 12 jurors. And during the penalty retrial, a similar 12-0 vote will be required if Jodi Arias is to die by lethal injection.
Unlike the 2013 trial, the Arias' death penalty case retrial won't be broadcasted live. According to Presiding Judge Sherry Stephens, television cameras will be permitted in the retrial but no video can be aired until a verdict has been rendered. The decision came after the defense disputed that live TV coverage would keep their witnesses from testifying.
Arias' death penalty case trial was highly sensational, grabbing a media spectacle and a national audience fascinated by themes of sex and violence. Meanwhile, the court estimates the sentencing retrial could take up to two months before verdict will be rendered.
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