Jodi Arias Trial: Defense Has Rested in Penalty Phase

Jodi Arias' defense team has done everything that they can to spare her life during the penalty phase of her trial and they have already rested their case. The prosecution will be up next to try and convince the Phoenix jury that she deserves the death penalty for killing Travis Alexander back in 2008. Her sentencing retrial began back in October because jurors were deadlocked the first time around. Prosecutors are hoping that Arias' punishment fits the crime and this doesn't end the same way that the first penalty phase trial did.

That crime was grisly, and, by many accounts, overkill. Alexander was her former boyfriend and Arias has claimed that she stabbed him multiple times, slit his throat and shot him in the head in self defense. Her story has repeatedly changed so it seems no one may never know exactly what happened before Alexander was killed in his Arizona home.

One thing is for certain and that's that Arias is expected not to testify again during the penalty phase. She spent two days on the stand late last fall for closed courtroom testimony which sources say should never have happened. Now if she were to take the stand it would be public testimony, leaving the press to likely spill details in sensational coverage. That, is probably the main reason why she hasn't testified again.

Once the penalty phase ends, if this jury is also deadlocked then the judge will be left to decide whether or not Arias' life in prison determination will give her a possibility of parole after 25 years. What do you think will be the end game this time? Will Arias be executed via the death penalty or will her life be spared? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

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Murder, Lies