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Jodi Arias prosecutors still plan to pursue death penalty

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A top Arizona prosecutor said on Wednesday that the state still plans to seek the death penalty for convicted murderer Jodi Arias for killing her ex-boyfriend, after a jury deadlocked last month on whether she should be executed.Full story

What it was like interviewing Jodi Arias

  NBC’s Diana Alvear joins Alex Witt to talk about her face-to-face interview with Jodi Arias.  Diana offers her impression of Arias during her forty-minute interview. She discusses Arias’ inauthenticity and how she did not seem too remorseful. Diana gives Alex her Hertz rental car anecdote and the ub

Jury hung in Arias case, new sentencing trial set

  The penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial ended in a hung jury Thursday when jury members could not unanimously decide whether she deserves the death penalty. Another trial is set for July and a new jury will be chosen. NBC’s Diana Alvear reports.

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  Mistrial declared in Jodi Arias penalty phase

The judge in charge of the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial has declared a mistrial after a deadlocked jury could not come to a conclusion over whether Arias would receive the death penalty.

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Convicted killer Jodi Arias thinks about a question asked during an interview at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was convicted recently of killing her former boyfriend Travis Alexander in his suburban Phoenix home back in 2008, and could face the possib

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix
Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix

Jodi Arias listens as the verdict for sentencing is read for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, 2013. REUTERS/David Wallace/The Arizona Republic/Pool

Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom before the verdict for sentencing was declared a hung jury for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix
Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom before the verdict for sentencing was declared a hung jury for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix

Jodi Arias stands as the jury enters the courtroom before the verdict for sentencing was declared a hung jury for her first degree murder conviction at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Arizona, May 23, 2013. An Arizona jury weighing whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for the brutal