A year after the first jury found Jodi Arias guilty of murdering her boyfriend, Travis Alexander, she will be facing yet another set of jurors Tuesday for the sentencing retrial to find out if she would face the death penalty or life imprisonment.
The new jury will decide if the former waitress will be executed or will spend the rest of life in jail.
Live updates of the retrial can be seen here.
Arias will try to convince the jury once again that she was physically and emotionally abused by her victim, leaving her no choice but to shoot him in the head, stab him over 2 dozen times, and leave him naked in his shower floor.
The prosecutors of the case argued that Arias' crime was premeditated and was not an act of self-defense because she got furious after learning that Alexander was breaking up with her and leaving for Mexico with another woman.
Her first trial became widely publicized and lasted for five months. She testified for 18 days as she divulged shocking revelations about her relationship with Alexander.
The first jury deliberated their verdict on May 8, 2013 for over 15 hours, and found her guilty of committing first-degree murder. However, they failed to make a decision on whether to impose a death penalty on her or to lock her up for life.
According to Huffington Post, Arias is facing three possible scenarios as the outcome of the retrial. She could be sentenced to death row, be sent to face a lifetime in prison, or be given a life sentence with eligibility to be released after 25 years behind bars. However, legal experts believe that Arias' death sentence will be an unlikely outcome for the case.
"Her age and being of the gentler, so to speak, gender could save her life again," Anne Bremner, an attorney and legal analyst from Seattle told Huffington Post. "The previous jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on death, and they heard every graphic detail of the crime."
She added. "Women don't come out ahead in life in many respects, but there are far fewer women on death row than there are men."
