This is the first sentencing trial I have ever seen where no relative has come forward and tearfully begged for the murder's life.
Her mother, aunt, sister and father attend the trial, write on social media that she was wrongfully convicted and sign petitions asking the state not to kill her because she is a battered woman who was fighting for her life and solicit money for an appellate fund but they won't tell the jury that they want her to live.
Even abusive parents will take the stand and admit they had abused the murderer as a child or the other parent had. They would say they were a good child. They just went wrong.
But when I listened to the interviews of her parents, grandparents and cousin Amy, I understood why.
Arias was never a good child. They are probably afraid of her because she was so violent, overbearing, aggressive and rude and showed no respect for authority.
I thought for sure her maternal grandparents would blame her father and stick up for her but they didn't so he must not have been abusive. They said Arias was mean to her mother and told her mother how to raise her siblings and would correct their grammar if they tried to talk to her. They said she was rude and overbearing.
They probably didn't even want her living in their house but they were too afraid of her to kick her out. Can you imagine how frightened they were when she was arrested and they found out she had shot Alexander in the head with a gun she stole from them and realized she could have killed them too?
In her allocution, she said she had wanted the death penalty but her cousin talked her out of it. So where was the cousin to say her life was spared? She said her family beat her and never supported her and yet she wanted the jury to save her life for her family. Yet nobody in her family told the jury they wanted her to live.
That means they feel safe that she is behind bars because they know she is capable of killing them also.
The only cousin interviewed said she was snide, sarcastic, snarky and a total bitch and that she would correct her grammar. None of her relatives but Carl said she was beaten by her father.
In interrogations, her mother and father said she was a strange child, nice one minute, angry the next, that she was mean to her mother, that she made up having a bad childhood, grew pot on the roof and when they called the sheriff she never trusted them after that, that she obsessed on and stalked Travis, her mother asked her if she killed him and the father said he asked her why she was going on the run if she was innocent.
Her brother wouldn't take the stand but he did say in an interview that their father was violent. No one else in the family said that. The aunt and grandparents would know. They lived in the same town and would see bruises. He is probably lying. As is the friend of Carl's who said in the affidavit he witnessed Carl's father throw him against the refrigerator.
After Arias was convicted, Martinez got the death penalty for a cop killer who was beaten every day by his father, had brain damage and had a low IQ and his parents pleaded for his life to be spared. The abuse excuse didn't work for him. The jury determined someone who is bad to the bone can not be rehabilitated and society is not safe with them in it.
Finally the jury is getting a glimpse of the real Arias. When your own relatives won't beg for your life, how can the jury feel your life is worth saving?
Her mother, aunt, sister and father attend the trial, write on social media that she was wrongfully convicted and sign petitions asking the state not to kill her because she is a battered woman who was fighting for her life and solicit money for an appellate fund but they won't tell the jury that they want her to live.
Even abusive parents will take the stand and admit they had abused the murderer as a child or the other parent had. They would say they were a good child. They just went wrong.
But when I listened to the interviews of her parents, grandparents and cousin Amy, I understood why.
Arias was never a good child. They are probably afraid of her because she was so violent, overbearing, aggressive and rude and showed no respect for authority.
I thought for sure her maternal grandparents would blame her father and stick up for her but they didn't so he must not have been abusive. They said Arias was mean to her mother and told her mother how to raise her siblings and would correct their grammar if they tried to talk to her. They said she was rude and overbearing.
They probably didn't even want her living in their house but they were too afraid of her to kick her out. Can you imagine how frightened they were when she was arrested and they found out she had shot Alexander in the head with a gun she stole from them and realized she could have killed them too?
In her allocution, she said she had wanted the death penalty but her cousin talked her out of it. So where was the cousin to say her life was spared? She said her family beat her and never supported her and yet she wanted the jury to save her life for her family. Yet nobody in her family told the jury they wanted her to live.
That means they feel safe that she is behind bars because they know she is capable of killing them also.
The only cousin interviewed said she was snide, sarcastic, snarky and a total bitch and that she would correct her grammar. None of her relatives but Carl said she was beaten by her father.
In interrogations, her mother and father said she was a strange child, nice one minute, angry the next, that she was mean to her mother, that she made up having a bad childhood, grew pot on the roof and when they called the sheriff she never trusted them after that, that she obsessed on and stalked Travis, her mother asked her if she killed him and the father said he asked her why she was going on the run if she was innocent.
Her brother wouldn't take the stand but he did say in an interview that their father was violent. No one else in the family said that. The aunt and grandparents would know. They lived in the same town and would see bruises. He is probably lying. As is the friend of Carl's who said in the affidavit he witnessed Carl's father throw him against the refrigerator.
After Arias was convicted, Martinez got the death penalty for a cop killer who was beaten every day by his father, had brain damage and had a low IQ and his parents pleaded for his life to be spared. The abuse excuse didn't work for him. The jury determined someone who is bad to the bone can not be rehabilitated and society is not safe with them in it.
Finally the jury is getting a glimpse of the real Arias. When your own relatives won't beg for your life, how can the jury feel your life is worth saving?