Jodi Arias' New Interview: 'I Feel Betrayed' by Jury
Jodi Arias' fate is in the hands of 12 jurors, but that hasn't stopped the woman accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend from speaking out about the trial and her hopes for the future.
Arias previously said that she hoped to receive the death penalty and that death would be the "ultimate freedom," but in a surprising move, asked the jury to spare her life yesterday. She spoke at length about how she could be of service to the prison population and how important her family is.
"I felt like by asking for death, it's like asking for assisted suicide, and I didn't want to do that to my family," Arias told the Associated Press in an exclusive interview after yesterday's court proceedings.
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"I'm asking you to please, please don't do that to them," Arias said during her testimony yesterday. "I've already hurt them so badly, along with so many other people. I want everyone's healing to begin, and I want everyone's pain to stop."
"I feel a little betrayed by them," Arias said of the jury that found her guilty. "I was hoping they would see me for who I am," she told CBS.
Arias has been in the spotlight ever since the trial began nearly five months ago; she was found guilty of the first-degree murder of Travis Alexander and eligible for the death penalty. Yet that did not stop her from using a friend to post her thoughts and ideas on Twitter.
"The prosecutor has accused me of wanting to be famous, which is not true," Arias said.
She added that she wished she'd never met Alexander "because of how ultimately everything ended and I say that for his sake and mine – not just a selfish thing. To this day I can hardly believe I was capable of such violence. But I know that I was. And for that, I'm going to be sorry for the rest of my life."
