Jodi Arias was found guilty in the first-degree for the murder of Travis Alexander on Wedneday.

All 18 jurors told the Maricopa County courtroom that they found Arias guilty on May 8. Arias will learn the penalty for the charge she was just convicted of on Thursday.

Arias, 32, was convicted for the 2008 murder of the 30-year-old Mormon motivational speaker. She stabbed her victim over 27 times, slit his throat from ear to ear and shot him in the head. His body was discovered the day he was killed: June 4, 2008

According to police, Arias lied twice at first about how Alexander was killed and later admitted that she killed him in an act of self-defense. If she 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.

During the four month trial, jurors listened to Arias testify for 18 days about claims of killing him in self-defense, sexual and emotional abuse and said that Alexander was a pedophile who matsurbated to images of children. Following her testimony, Judge Sherry Stephens read hundreds of questions from jurors in the Maricopa County courtroom.

Arizona is one of the few states in the country that allows jurors to question defendants on trial. The process allows jurors to ask questions before they make their decision - in this case, whether or not Arias will be executed by lethal injection for the gruesome crime. The inquiries are submitted into a box and read aloud by Judge Stephens if they are not objectionable.

Deliberations began on Friday, May 3. The verdict was announced following private meetings they had during 15 hours over two and a half days. The questions by the juror during the trial gave clues to what they may have decided.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez asked the jury to hand Arias with the guity verdict during his closing argument on May 3:

"What the state is asking you to do is your duty. And the judge has indicated that your duty is to follow the law as she's given it to you, and apply it to the facts. And in asking that, the state is asking you to return a verdict of guilty. That you return a verdict of guilty as to first-degree murder. Not only as to premeditated murder, but also as to felony murder, for no other reason that it's your duty, and the facts and the law support it."

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