Defending lawyer Kirk Nurmi asked his client Jodi Arias multiple questions on the witness stand yesterday to address prosecutor Juan Martinez's cross-examination last week.

Nurmi had Arias revisit her "foggy" memory about not remembering stabbing her victim, Travis Alexander. She also explained her journal entries, explained the gas purchase for her road trip and described in detail what happened in the minutes before she killed him.

Arias, 31, is on trial for killing her ex-lover, Alexander, a 30-year-old Mormon motivational speaker. Arias admitted that she stabbed her victim 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the head. His body was discovered the day he was killed on June 4, 2008.

Nurmi began the trial on Day 27 by addressing her testimony that she witnessed Alexander masturbating to a picture of a little boy.

Last week, Martinez pointed out that Arias' journal did not mention that she saw anything disturbing throughout the month of January, 2008. Nurmi, however, set out to prove that this was incorrect by highlighting statements Arias wrote in her journal that month.

Arias wrote that she was so upset about Alexander cheating on her and masturbating to an image to a little boy that she thought about ripping out pages of her journal. She also wrote that she was "haunted" by the nice side of his personality because it made her stay in the relationship.

"But it still remains that I cannot marry him. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something is just off with that boy," Arias read out loud from her journal.

Arias testified again that's he doesn't remember the moments after she killed Alexander which involved moving his body into the shower, cleaning his bedroom and putting the gun that was used to shoot him in her car after she committed the horrific crime which she has admitted to. She said she knows she did all of it based on logic.

"Do you remember grabbing the gun?"

"I don't remember grabbing the gun and taking it with me in the car," said Arias.

"Do you remember how you felt at that moment in time - when you were screaming and dropping the knife?"

"I can't really describe it, it's, it's a horrible feeling. I felt...I don't know, I felt panic. It's horrible," replied Arias.

Arias also explained why she bought three gas cans for her road trip from California to Arizona and Utah. Last week, prosecutor Martinez presented the receipts that showed she bought some gas with cash and some with a credit card and had rented her car 100 miles from where she live to prove the murder was pre-meditated.

Nurmi showed his client the receipts and she couldn't remember which was for credit card and cash purchases. She explained her reasoning for buying three gas cans.

"Why purchase a third. You had two, why three?" Nurmi asked her.

"Well I was thinking about, again, getting cheap gas out of state and after I got it, I thought it doesn't really make sense, the math, and there's not a lot of room in my trunk," Arias answered. "It didn't make as much sense as my idea originally just to fill up on gas and that kind of thing."

Arias then explained she bought three cans' worth of gas out of fear of running out of gas in the middle of the night during her road trip.

"I was concerned about driving across that area in the middle of the night, being alone, never having driven that road before. So I wanted to make sure that I didn't run out of gas. I wanted to make sure I didn't run out of gas so I put gas first in my tanks so I didn't run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, that was my fear," said Arias.

Nurmi asked, "So it wasn't just about saving money, it was concern about running out of gas on the way to Utah."

"I was hoping to save money but I was more concerned for my safety once I realized I was driving 12 hours to somewhere I had never driven before," replied Arias.

If Arias is convicted of the murder and the lies that she confessed to, she will likely face the death penalty and become the fourth woman in Arizona's history to die by lethal injection.

Watch the live stream of Arias being cross-examined by prosecutors in her murder trial on Wednesday, March 6, starting at 12:15 p.m. EST.

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