I really wish I could convince myself that Travis was unconscious at the time his throat was slashed but I cant. The evidence shows he was alive as he tried to make his way down the hallway. There are smears on the wall where Travis is trying to use the wall to support himself, He was alive going down that hallway trying so hard to make it to freedom. IMO, but at the end of that hallway is when she pounced on him again when he had reached the carpeted area of his bedroom. I think he was trying to crawl away until then. Imo, she straddled him, pulled his head way back, and that is when she slit his throat and that is where the large pool of blood was. Once she cut his throat the open gaping wound would be bleeding profusely very quickly especially when his main arteries were severed. He was still bleeding out as she pulled him back down the hall to stuff him in the shower. It probably took his body another two minutes or so to bleed out after she slashed his throat open.
Imo, I do believe he was alive and conscious at the time when she slit his throat but too weak to do anything to stop her. Arias' main objective when she premeditated his murder was for him to know he was going to die and wanted him to know she was the one that was going to end his life. That is why she first used an up close and personal weapon to murder him. The long sharp deadly knife.
IMO
I still wonder if, and at what point, he had gotten away from her, could he have survived. It seems that the wound to the chest would have been rapidly fatal, but perhaps if he had gotten out of the house, EMTs could have provided life-saving assistance. I know it's a moot point, but I still wonder. Those people perform miracles every day.
Sometimes I put myself in his position and wonder what I would have done. I think he was totally focused on getting help, and Jodi was totally focused on preventing him from living one moment longer. She was so intent on killing him, he really didn't stand a chance.
I also sometimes put myself in Jodi's position. What did she have to gain? Nothing that any sane person could decipher. I think that's why the question of motive keeps coming up again and again without any clear answer.
The fact that she has now dug her heels in on a story that is based on something to the effect that he deserved it, is so telling. She's clearly mentally ill (and in denial about it), but then again, so is every other evil person. That doesn't give any of them a pass.
As an aside, during the sentencing retrial, Jodi was so (oddly) happy in court. I think two things were going on there:
1. Most days, she was wearing make-up, which she wasn't allowed to do during the first trial. I think she hated the fact that the first trial was televised and everyone saw her without the benefit of cosmetics. Even on the day of sentencing trial, she was wearing make-up, so although she looks awful in her new booking photo, imagine how plain-jane she would have looked without the enhancement of make-up, which she loves so much.
2. She truly thought all the red herring "evidence" she "uncovered" during her days acting pro per (*advertiser censored*, and/or chorn) would convince people that Travis was such an awful person that he deserved to die. I have no doubt that she still believes he deserved to die; her remorselessness speaks to that. But the truth remains that no evidence she presented meant anything to the jury.