I lived in the Northern Virginia area when the DC Snipers were killing random people. I was working as a dialysis nurse & often filled my gas tank up early in the morning, like 5:30am. One of the murders took place at a Home Depot about 2 miles from my job. We were terrified. I remember taking precautions like getting in the car while the tank was filling up. Anyway, several years after their capture (John Mohammed & Lee Malvo) John Mohammed was executed in Virginia. As much as he terrorized the area & killed several innocent people, the night he was executed I felt sort of hollow & actually a little sad for the killer, sort of like an "is that all there is" moment, it felt unfulfilling, like two wrongs don't make a right. I started to think that life in prison is a "better" penalty, in that the criminal will have a long, miserable life behind bars. But then I also feel like the death penalty is warranted in some crimes. I think no matter how much of a narcissist she is, Jodi Arias will be miserable indeed with LWOP. She'll have 23 hrs a day to relive 6/4/08, & I don't for a minute even think she was in a fog. She deserves that misery. She knows, or is getting to be familiar, with the fact that after this phase of the trial she will sink into oblivion. People are sick of her antics now! In time she will just fade away, like Susan Smith or Betty Broderick, & the next picture we see of her she will be 20 yrs older, with sagging breast augmentation & furrows in her brow, salt & pepper hair. Her victim will be, as Juan said, forever young.
I just want to say just because it's in my craw that I don't believe Jodi Arias slaughter of Travis Alexander had anything to do with love. On either end.
