She believes Travis deserved this because he said very mean things.
At the beginning, I knew nothing about the circumstances of this case. After the opening arguments, I believed TA was emotionally abusive and there may have been merit to an emotionally abused defendant who "snapped." The clincher, which I just could not shake, was him calling her the 3-hole thing (I can't even repeat that, I find it so offensive). I found that extremely quintessentially degrading.
HOWEVER, after hearing the whole story, I TOTALLY GET that TA was exasperated by JA's manipulation and what I believe to be terrorism and probably threats of blackmail. And I also understand co-dependance. I believe she talked him into anal sex, saying "it's not really breaking the rule of chastity," and then, once he experienced so much uninhibited sex, he became very attached to it. He did hide her, that wasn't nice, and he did say mean things to her. But in total context (sorry for using that word), he was exasperated and angry. Did he respond in a mature fashion? No, he took the low road, using name calling and emotion. But so what??????
It has absolutely no bearing on the defense trying to justify a murder as self-defense.
Too bad Alyce couldn't have been objective enough to see past the nastiness of their emails (she needs to cruise around Facebook just a little bit and see how people talk!!) and her naive notion that the phone sex scenarios were perverse. She cannot see the forest for the trees.