yeah right..... shooting the guy, stabbing him and slitting his throat...... she deserves torture for her crimes

idk why you have so much sympathy for killers...

...it was not a crime of passion . It was cold and calculated premeditated murder committed by a sociopath .

k thanks there. Guess his dumping her and running off with another girl had no bearing on her emotions.

I am perfectly fine with sentencing people to life without parole if they have shown they cannot participate in society without being a danger to others.

Though I don't mind if they have some level of comfort, along with in-prison labour.

...her only emotion was narcissistic self-desire ...love and relationships had nothing to do with her motivation .

I have empathy for all people. It's easy to tar someone as 'evil' and create a one-dimensional, cardboard cut-out type image of them in your mind. it makes it easier to think of them as sub-human and justify all kinds of horrific action against them in the name of 'justice'.

Fact is - Jodi Arias is just another person. Complex and with her own thoughts and emotions. Contrary to what Widow says she doesn't fit the DSMIV definition of a sociopath. She's more likely afflicted by borderline personality disorder (as the prosecution argued) or narcissistic personality disorder. She's going to live in hell for the rest of her life with no hope of reprieve or redemption. I feel sorry for her. Just as I feel sorry for her victim and the family and friends, hers and her victim's, that are affected by her horrific actions. She fucked up... now she's receiving the worst punishment possible within the American penal system. The only comfort to her will be the fame she receives for these actions, as that wanes through the years and people forget who she is and what she did she is going to break down in ways and under pressures you and I cannot imagine.

An expeditious death sentence would be the most humane course of action in this case.



People serving LWOP have even less than most other prisoners. I would argue that the conditions of their incarceration are a gross violation of decency and humanity.

This post was edited by Scaly on Apr 14 2015 09:15am

They should chop off the heads of murders or not. None of this nonsense about racially, sexually, and attractively stratified punishments.

I agree here, I think for us to use the penal system to "punish" is the wrong approach, people who are found to be a menace to society should be removed so that they aren't a danger to society, but the life of solitary confinement is doing nothing but adding to the punishment of taking the person out of society. No matter what their crime they deserve the basic creature comforts of distraction and exercise. When we deny these basic things we become torturers ourselves. Our viciousness in retaliation for a crime that can never be repaid takes some of our humanity along with the prisoners every day they are forced to to stay secluded.

She's a murderer and deserves to be sentenced to death. Our tax money shouldn't be wasted keeping her alive in a cell.

LWOP is cheaper than the death sentence.