Jodi Arias says she will accept whatever decision the jury comes to about her sentence for the murder of her former boyfriend Travis Alexander.
“Whatever they come back with I will have to deal with it: I have no other choice,” Arias said in a jailhouse interview on Tuesday.
“I’ve completely effed up my life and I think I would be doing everyone a favor,” she said of receiving the death penalty.
Meanwhile, the jury sent a note to Judge Sherry Stephens this afternoon saying they could not agree on a sentence. Judge Stephens sent them back to the deliberation room. "Each juror has a duty to consult with one another, (and) to try to reach agreement without violence to individual judgment. You may want to identify areas of agreement and disagreement. If you still disagree, you may wish to tell the attorneys and me what issues, questions or law or facts on which we can possibly help," Stephens said."At this time please go back to the jury room and continue deliberating.”
Arias, 32, pleaded for her life Tuesday, contradicting an earlier interview in which she said that she preferred the death penalty. "I've made public statements that preferred the death penalty. I lacked perspective," she said.
She asked that her family be considered. "I can't in good conscience ask you to send me to death because of them. That would be tantamount to suicide. Either way, I’m going to spend the rest of my life in prison. It’ll either be shortened or not. If it’s shortened, the people who will hurt the most is my family. I’m asking you please, please don’t do that to them. I’ve already hurt them so badly along with so many other people. I want everyone's healing to begin and for their pain to stop,” said Arias.
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