After Verdict, Sentencing Is a New Trial for Jurors

The jury was scheduled to return to the courtroom to decide whether Arias should be eligible for the death penalty after convicting her on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of her one-time boyfriend Travis Alexander in his home on June 4, 2008.The briefest part of the four-month Jodi Arias trial was its conclusion, which was simple, direct and blessedly devoid of sensation. It may have been the first evidence since the "Jodi Show" began that the purpose of this trial was not titillation orA man holed up in a Phoenix hotel was arrested and accused of threatening to bomb the courthouse where jurors were to begin deciding whether convicted murderer Jodi Arias should get the death penalty, authorities saidJodi Arias says she prefers a death sentence,Jodi Arias said in a post-conviction interview with a TV station that she prefers the death penalty over life in

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