Jodie Arias Case

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Was Travis Alexander a violent womanizer or was Jodi Arias a stalker? Was justice served after judge Sherry Stephens declared that Jodi Arias will receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole after 25 years? Jodi Arias is a 37 years old woman who was charged for murdering her 30 years old ex boyfriend Travis Alexander back in 2008, in his Arizona house. Jodi Arias was guilty of premeditated and felony murder since she admitted that she was the one who killed Travis Alexander.
Due to Jodi Arias was the last person that saw Travis Alexander, she quickly became the focus of the sensational case. Back in 2006, Jodi Arias, a 27 years old marketing saleswoman who had a passion for photography met Travis Alexander, a 30 years old marketing
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Jodi Arias deny that she had any involvement of Travis’s death but then she change her statement that Travis had attacked her in a rage after she’d dropped the camera so she ran to his wardrobe to find his gun. However. she had no memory of getting a kitchen knife and brutally stabbing him. “Jodi said she threw away the gun in the desert, and left answerphone messages on Travis’s mobile over the coming days, making it clear she hadn’t seen him”(Shortland). She then changed her statement for the third time when investigators found her DNA mixed with Alexander's blood at the crime scene. “She claimed that she and her ex had been attacked by two masked intruders. After killing Alexander, the criminals decided to let her live, she told police, adding that she chose not to alert authorities at the time because she feared the intruders might seek revenge”(Biography.com). In summation, Justice was not served because she made up stories and lied to the court, and she took someone else's life. She was also found guilty for first degree murdering Travis Alexander. She claimed that she lived everyday wishing she could undo what she did to Travis while serve her sentence at Perryville Prison without the possibility of parole after 25 years. For murdering the innocent Travis Alexander, she clearly should receive a death penalty or do voluntary work for the country instead of a sentence at

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