Jodi Arias Murder Trial: She Insists ‘He Was Trying to Kill Me’

Although I think that Jodi deserves the severest possible punishment, not only because of her vicious & protracted mortal attack on Travis but because of using unsupported claims of violence, criminal acts & perversion as a defense, but because the death penalty might allow her to have more attention & drama than being just another inmate would. She would get more media attention as a death row woman than as an ordinary inmate, and her fame, which she seems to value so highly, wold be maintained. If she were sent to live in prison for decades, she would no longer be a center of attention & would have a long, long time to live without a spotlight on her - which I think she would find harder to bear than facing having her life extinguished. I think Jodi would prefer drama & the spotlight, even if it's a shorter time period & ends in execution.

I just want the friends & family of Travis to know that, as unfair & painful as it is that the judge has permitted the defense to offer claims - unsupported by fact - of criminal & abusive behavior, that it is obvious from watching the trial that anything Jodi says about Travis somehow provoking her savage attack or in any way hurting her are ridiculous, unbelievable lies, borne of viciousness & perhaps some cowardice.

I feel so sorry for Travis' loved ones, that not only have they had to suffer the loss of Travis, but also that the court has allowed such complete fabrications to be given an airing in public. A judge that is brave and fair would consider not only giving someone facing the death penalty wide opportunities for theories of the crime, but would also consider the fact that they are creating a permanent public record of claims about a person who is no longer able to defend his own good name. A strong and even a creative defense is a good thing, but defense claims that have no supporting evidence and do such violence to the memory of someone already a victim of a prolonged, painful & deadly attack and robbed of his future. A defense attorney with ethics would refuse to air vicious & unsubstantiated claims like the claims made by Jodi.

It is clear to me that Travis was a decent, kind & nonviolent individual. And equally clear that Jodi is a brutal, cruel & selfish creature. Even though I a politically opposed to the death penalty, as long as it dos exist, Jodi is the sort of criminal for which it is appropriate.