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

Arias will learn the penalty for the charge she was just convicted of on Thursday. 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.

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

Deliberations began after prosecutor Juan Martinez delivered the closing arguments for the state on Thursday. During his recap of the testimonies and evidence presented during the four month trial, Arias was visibly upset. She cried when he presented evidence photos of Alexander's dead body and went over how the murder occurred in detail.ey 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.

When Martinez presented the graphic images of Alexander, members of Alexander's family - who took up three rows in the gallery - turned their heads away.

"It was a very well orchestrated kill," Martinez said, as he held up a photo of Alexander's throat cut open. "She killed him three times over."

"And so, she gets her knife," he explained to the court, "And she took that knife and stabbed him. Side. Front. The reason that we know that she did that is because Mr. Alexander has the defense wounds, and he has defensive wounds to his left and to his right hand.

"As she is stabbing him, he is alive and he is cognizant of it, and he begins to grab at the knife. But unfortunately for Mr. Alexander, one of the knife wounds is to the heart. Doesn't mean he's going to die immediately, it means he's just going to die."

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