She has the eyes of a serial killer.
Chilling.
Life w/o parole at least keeps her contained until she dies.

For some unknown reason, I watched every minute of the original trial, and the entire retrial, and held my opinions of her guilt until I could no longer withhold judgment and satisfy my disbelief.. She is beyond guilty, she is the embodiment of evil, and the same for her defense team and their paid experts.. I'd have lost no sleep if this wicked woman would, as she should have received the death penalty, and I am no fan of state sponsored killing..

In rare cases, there is no other punishment than to permanently remove some folks from a civil society, and from their remorseless nefarious intentions..

Death Row for her would have been the only Just punishment. This killing was horrific.
She should have spent every day of her life fighting for appeals only to be denied every time. That should be her fate
Sitting isolated from society, on death row, fighting for her life as Travis fought for his, only to be put to death in the end, as Travis was, at her hands.
Anything other than that is still too good for her.

I believe she will spend up to four years in isolation at Perryville, before she can be put in GP and then she will be living with other murderers.
She should spend all her days with her own kind. Away from society.

She should have been sentenced to Death for what she did.
She has the cold stare in her eyes & the defiant personality of Manson. Same gruesome style of killing.


Bless Travis Alexander's dear family & friends forever.

on 'her' story.

That prevents convicted criminals from profiting from their crimes?

Similar to the one filed by Nicole Brown's family against OJ Simpson. It claims her earnings until the determined court settlement is fulfilled.
Don't know when this civil case will be heard, but can now go forward now that the trial is over.
Hope the court grants them millions in that judgment.

I think she should have gotten the death penalty

I think their is a chance that the death penalty could be a deterrent to people like kissinger bush cheney rumsfeld bolton libby ect.

But it would prevent any repeat offenses. Better than nothing.

And some Democrats do support the death penalty.

For crimes they did not commit

That is, it should not be imposed unless there is a reason to do so? THAT SAYS NOTHING. Let's not pretend that this is a policy position. It's a tautology.

Which is why as soon as it is passed it is placed in a file cabinet (or nowadays on a memory stick) and promptly forgotten.

Judicial sentencing does not allow capital sentence. You have to be sentenced to death by a jury. When the jury hung twice and the prosecutor opted for judicial sentencing, the death penalty was off the table.

(It's that way in most jurisdictions, it might be nationwide at this point.)

When it comes down to it, we are all the "State".

My opinion on the death penalty was formed early in my life.

This case was real close to my hometown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitts_and_Lee_v._Florida

Wilbert Lee came within six hours of being murdered by the state.

Charles manson should have been executed a long time ago. I hear he's getting married and enjoying the love that he denied his victims

He was an accessory. He convinced people to do things but he didn't kill anyone. He was convicted of murder due to the joint-responsibility clause.

Other idiots into things.

It being a crime isn't up for debate. Putting someone to death for it is.

Most recently 'at the bidding' of both Bush and Obama. They might have had altruistic reasons for ordering the military actions they have, but those orders still resulted in a lot of 'collateral damage' and the deaths of far more innocents than Manson could ever claim.

participant in a felony.

The murders would not have happened without Manson. Would it have been a miscarriage of justice to have executed him? There doesn't seem to be anything indicating other than he'd be death penalty poster-boy.

Does being a felon without actually taking the life of someone warrant the death penalty?

I helped in the decision to put my mother in hospice. I've taken dogs to the vet to end suffering.

I'm not prepared to give the likes of Arias, Tsarnaev, Manson, Kaczynski, Moussaoui, Nichols, et al, that level of compassion.

Let her rot in a cell for the rest of her life.

Supposedly the woman wanted to marry him so she could turn his body into a tourist attraction. Manson liked the gifts he was getting for her.

Anyways their permission to marry certificate expired.

One juror chose life!

One death is enough.

How can we as a society value life if we take it on the whim of one person? What does that say about us? Fair? Equitable?

When will this end?

it will end when people like her don't exist

No DP, nohow.

As in the debra milke case their was serious prosecutorial misconduct. Police destroying evidence on computer and prosecutors say arias was a liar saying child porn was on computer that they erased. New trial likely. This state does this all the time. Travis was lds and this was mesa az and she latina.

the allegations of child porn against Travis after she murdered him & got busted for it. As a Puerto Rican you can save the bullshit she got railroaded because she's Hispanic line as well. The paper trail on her was solid from beginning to end & if anyone should be called out it's the people that went on the stand on her behalf & got caught blatantly committing perjury.

But thanks for joining DU for this nonsense.

Not only did she plot his murder, she tried to destroy everything about him in the memory of those that knew and loved him.

I thought "Arias" was a Greek name.

And I'm not believing that she's going to get a new trial. I don't care if she's Greek, Latina, or Martian - that woman is murderer.

Good riddance. I failed to escape a few minutes of the preposterously lurid trial on "Headline News," and the little bit that I saw made me want to vomit up stuff that I ate 20 years ago.

She did it no question about it.

But Headline News played up all the lurid sex stuff up like it was who Arias was 24/7. It was disgusting, and purely because HLN thought it was a ratings winner. She lost the court of public opinion thanks to HLN and is now paying the price. I'm not sure what the usual penalty for murder is but 25 with the possibility of parole is in my opinion a reasonable sentence and probably more than most murderers get.

And as far as her family they should get over themselves. I understand grieving but they are just vindictive beyond normal standards. Very unlikeable. And I give people a wide berth but something about the brother turns me completely off. If he had his way he would do the same to her as she did to the boyfriend and still not be satisfied.

/end rant (Something about the "news" coverage about this case really turned me off completely.)

I was waiting in a lobby while my car was being serviced, and I had to endure long testimony about the nature of his Arias' panties and the frequency of their bedroom roleplaying. All of it central to the case, I'm sure...

There was some testimony about anal sex. I don't remember exactly what the story was except that Jody said Travis really wanted that. That particular sound clip was played over and over again multiple times per day on HLN as if that was what the case was about rather than a murder.

HLN coverage was an abomination. I know the woman killed him but the HLN coverage was not conducive to getting a fair trial. HLN just wanted to "report" on anal sex rather than discuss the facts of the case. I watch that channel quite a bit and their coverage of this case just made me think, "Am I listening to a bunch of middle school boys"? Pathetic! Sorry that I have to side with a murderer in this case but she really didn't get a fair sentence. The death penalty shouldn't have even been on the table as that should be reserved for the most vicious of killers not those that kill a single person for whatever demented reason.

People that kill others without any cause should be locked up for life to protect the rest of us, someone that kills for a particular grudge should get punishment but be allowed to rehabilitate themselves after 25 years.

Don't blame anyone but the killer.
She sliced through his throat. This is all on her.

I'm wholly opposed to the death penalty, but if we're judging the relative savagery of murders, Ms. Arias certainly rates right up there.

has no fucking regard for anybody but herself. If it were "self defense", she would've been traumatized. Who goes out and buys a gun so soon after doing something like that? No fucking way should she have gotten out in 25. Sorry, but some people are just too dangerous to live free in a society, and she proved that she's one of them.

attorneys were trying to show he was abusive and controlling and used her sexually and that was what led her to kill him and cover it up.

May not in the end have been central to the case but she (technically her attorneys) was the one who made it central to the case.

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It was a protracted commercial for a courtroom-themed porn film.

It was her defense attorneys that brought up the subject. But it was HLN that always referred to the case using that audio clip about anal sex, again and again and again. I don't care what people do in the bedroom but HLN kept reporting this as the crux of the case. It wasn't, but if she was controlled/abused it is mitigating.

Again, I am not defending Arias but HLN did terrible reporting when their whole gambit was to play up that one sentence about anal sex as though this was the most important part of weeks of testimony.

She deserves life in prison. She's as evil as evil gets.

I mean Nancy Grace .. not Jody Arias

No damn reason she should ever roam free in her useless life.
Judge did the only right thing she could.
Arias's final resting place will be a prison cemetery.

How she sliced thru his throat makes Arias on the same mental level as Jihadi John.
Cold brutal killing.
Eff her.

Travis seemed like a really nice guy with lots of friends and a great job. She was horrible. She should never see light again. I'm not even sure one hour of daylight is enough to keep her from killing again given the chance. Some are to awful to walk among us.

she is a master class manipulator and self obsessed liar. IMO she deserves to be locked up forever.

Nearly all people saw the full onslaught crazy burning bright.

The manipulation didn't work so well on everyone.

Controls the sheep and sensationalizes the lurid aspects of a creature such as this.

Most murderers are lucky to serve 15 years before parole

She shot him. She stabbed him almost 30 times. She almost decapitated him.

She's had years to meditate on this brutal crime; yet, she hasn't shown a shred of remorse.

I've seen lots of murderers get the death penalty for much less.

After years of "not remembering" stabbing him, suddenly she remembers and tells Travis family that when she stabbed his throat he was still conscious. Just throwing more acid into their wound.

And THEY should get over themselves?

I am against the death penalty for a lot of other reasons though.

most people aren't suicidal no matter what is going on. Prisons are not fun places though, not even close, Supermax even less so.

To get her life back together

That's a just outcome.

printed about her. So the guy was a jerk. Should've just dumped his ass & moved on. Narcissism run amok gets you in trouble every single time. Unless you're Ted Cruz, I guess.