I would be okay with a hung jury or a life sentence, if it was achieved fair and square but when a juror deliberately hangs the jury because she doesn't believe in the death penalty or she is a Jodi Arias supporter, that is a violation of the law and she should be arrested and convicted of jury misconduct.
Unfortunately, she will probably never be arrested or prosecuted for jury misconduct unless she admits it and she will never do that. It is hard to prove that she lied when she said she supported the death penalty even if she gave that speech 11 months before. She could say she had changed her mind. Also, prosecutors hesitate to prosecute hold out jurors because it may discourage jurors from serving on a jury.
In their media interviews, most of the 11 jurors voting for the death penalty said they believed Juror No. 17 had an agenda from the beginning.
Before deliberations they took a vote and only 6 were for the death penalty, some undecided and the one juror for life. At that time, Juror No. 17 said she wanted to tell the bailiff they had a hung jury.
They refused saying they wanted to look at the evidence to see if it changed any of their minds. They asked her what evidence they should look at and she said the journals. Some of the jurors said they decided to vote for death after reading the journals and text messages because they saw that none of the things the defense portrayed in the trial about Travis Alexander and the relationship between Arias and Alexander was true.
After looking at the evidence and expressing their personal views, by the end of the second day, the vote for death was 11-1. They continued on for two more days and she refused to change her vote but wouldn't tell them why.
When they asked her if she believed in the death penalty, she said yes but this case does not call for the death penalty because the Lifetime movie made Arias out to be a monster but she is a normal girl. When they asked what case would call for the death penalty, she wouldn't answer. She instead said, "You just want revenge" which is exactly what Jodi Arias had said on her twitter account. The autopsy pictures which convinced all of the other jurors to vote for death did not affect the juror in anyway. The jurors said she seemed to take pride in hanging the jury.
The Lifetime movie was fictionalized and was not part of the evidence so she should have been removed for considering it in her vote for life. The jurors sent a question to the judge saying one juror was discussing the Lifetime movie and not deliberating and asked for an alternate not knowing how the alternate would vote. They said they were not upset that she wasn't voting their way, they were upset because she apparently had an agenda and opposed the death penalty. Apparently, the holdout juror also sent a note to the judge explaining her position. That's when the judge said they had an obligation to talk to the other jurors and see what areas they disagree in without compromising their views.
If Jury No. 17 didn't believe in the death penalty, she couldn't vote for it and had no business being on the jury and was only on there to hang the jury.
Unfortunately, she will probably never be arrested or prosecuted for jury misconduct unless she admits it and she will never do that. It is hard to prove that she lied when she said she supported the death penalty even if she gave that speech 11 months before. She could say she had changed her mind. Also, prosecutors hesitate to prosecute hold out jurors because it may discourage jurors from serving on a jury.
In their media interviews, most of the 11 jurors voting for the death penalty said they believed Juror No. 17 had an agenda from the beginning.
Before deliberations they took a vote and only 6 were for the death penalty, some undecided and the one juror for life. At that time, Juror No. 17 said she wanted to tell the bailiff they had a hung jury.
They refused saying they wanted to look at the evidence to see if it changed any of their minds. They asked her what evidence they should look at and she said the journals. Some of the jurors said they decided to vote for death after reading the journals and text messages because they saw that none of the things the defense portrayed in the trial about Travis Alexander and the relationship between Arias and Alexander was true.
After looking at the evidence and expressing their personal views, by the end of the second day, the vote for death was 11-1. They continued on for two more days and she refused to change her vote but wouldn't tell them why.
When they asked her if she believed in the death penalty, she said yes but this case does not call for the death penalty because the Lifetime movie made Arias out to be a monster but she is a normal girl. When they asked what case would call for the death penalty, she wouldn't answer. She instead said, "You just want revenge" which is exactly what Jodi Arias had said on her twitter account. The autopsy pictures which convinced all of the other jurors to vote for death did not affect the juror in anyway. The jurors said she seemed to take pride in hanging the jury.
The Lifetime movie was fictionalized and was not part of the evidence so she should have been removed for considering it in her vote for life. The jurors sent a question to the judge saying one juror was discussing the Lifetime movie and not deliberating and asked for an alternate not knowing how the alternate would vote. They said they were not upset that she wasn't voting their way, they were upset because she apparently had an agenda and opposed the death penalty. Apparently, the holdout juror also sent a note to the judge explaining her position. That's when the judge said they had an obligation to talk to the other jurors and see what areas they disagree in without compromising their views.
If Jury No. 17 didn't believe in the death penalty, she couldn't vote for it and had no business being on the jury and was only on there to hang the jury.