Following 1st Degree Premeditated Murder Verdict, Jodi Arias Says in an Interview … She Wants Death, “Prefer to Die Sooner Than Later”

LIVE OR DIE … WHAT WILL THE JURY DECIDE?

The jury who handed down the verdict yesterday to Jodi Arias of first degree, premeditated murder of Travis Alexander will be back in the court room today deciding whether she lives or dies. The brutality of the murder was heinous. Alexander was stabbed and slashed nearly 30 times, shot in the forehead and had slit his throat from ear to ear. One would have to think that he did not die quickly, which was also the testimony from the Maricopa County Medical Examiner. In an interview with Fox affiliate KSA, following the first degree murder verdict, Jodi Arias said, ”I prefer to die sooner than later.”

Arias is manipulative to the end. I am at a loss for words that a convicted felon who has yet to be sentenced is allowed to do a TV interview following a verdict. Does a just give Jodi her wish of death or do they make her suffer by living? Of course that is whether Arias was actually telling the truth?

Arias spoke out about the verdict minutes after her conviction Wednesday, telling a TV station that she would “prefer to die sooner than later.”

“Longevity runs in my family, and I don’t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place,” a tearful Arias told Fox affiliate KSAZ. “I believe death is the ultimate freedom and I’d rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it.”

More from FOX News KSAZ:

“I think I just went blank… I just feel overwhelmed. I think I just need to take it a day at a time. It was unexpected for me… There was no premeditation on my part.”

“The worst outcome for me would be natural life… Longevity runs in my family, and I don’t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place. I said years ago I’d rather get death than life and that still is true today. I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I’d rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it.”

“I think the way everything happened, if I had just been honest from the beginning I would be in a different place and so would everyone else. And because of what I’ve done a lot of people will hurt for a long time.”