What one will do to try to avoid death

"The last thing he saw before he lapsed into unconsciousness.... was the blade coming to his throat," Martinez said.  "And the last thing he felt before he left this earth was pain." USA Today reported.

Body of Travis Alexander.  Photo from
http://men-factor.blogspot.com/2013/02/quick
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Jodi Arias proven of murder and mutilating
her ex-boyfriend Photo taken from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-2254933

Travis Alexander was a salesman in his 20's when his life would be cut short. On June 4th, 2008 Travis Alexander was both mutilated and then murdered by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias.  From the photo you can see that his throat was slit.  In addition to this he was stabbed more than 20 times and shot with a .25 caliber gun.  

On May 28th, 2008 Jodi Arias already had plotted ideas for killing Alexander when she stole a gun from her grandparents house.  But at the time no one knew she stole the gun they thought someone else robbed them.  She would have gotten away with this crime except when she tried to destroy the camera she erased the images but cops were able to restore the lost images and she claimed she last saw Alexander in April 2008 but rather the images showed images of the two of them together on June 4th, 2008 and one even showed images of Alexander bleeding.  In addition she had multiple cuts on her arms and continued to tell people different stories about how she got the cuts.  Then when confronted by the cops she told them three different stories about his death.  One was that she was not with him, the second was two intruders broke in and murdered him and attacked her, and lastly she stated she killed him in self defense.  By this time she has proven herself guilty.     

Now it is 2013 and Jodi Arias is being tried by courts in California for the death of Travis Alexander for the final time.  On May 8th she was convicted by all 12 jurors of murder first-degree premeditated murder and then 7 of the same also charged her with felony murder.  California courts are one of the few in the United States that allow the death penalty to occur.  

For Arias she might just get her very wish.  This is what she said during her latest trial, "Longevity runs in my family, and I don't want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place," a tearful Arias said.  "I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I'd rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it."  

What do you think should happen, should Arias get her wish and be sentenced to death for her crime or live her life in jail wishing she was dead but having to live with other murders for the crime she committed?  Keep in mind for every person in prison it cost approximately $42,000 tax payers dollars a year to keep them in prison?  

Please read more about this cases:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/16/jodi-arias-sentencing/2165197