Jodi Arias was found guilty in the first degree for the murder of her on-and-off lover Travis Alexander on Wednesday and following the verdict, Arias was moved to a pysch ward where she is under “constant supervision.”

Authorities believe the convicted killer is considering suicide.

Twenty minutes after the verdict was read aloud in the Maricopa County courtroom, Arias spoke to Phoenix, Arizona’s Fox 10 News about how she felt regarding her conviction. Arias said she would rather "get death than life" and "die“sooner than later” than spend the rest of her life in jail.

“The worst outcome for me would be natural life, I would rather die sooner rather than later,” Arias told Fox 10 News. “Longevity runs in my family and I don’t want to spend the rest of my natural life in one place. I am pretty healthy, I don’t smoke, and I would probably live a long time."

“I said years ago I’d rather get death than life and that still is true today. I believe death is the ultimate freedom, so I’d rather just have my freedom as soon as I can get it,” she added.

When asked what her immediate reaction was after the unanimous decision made by the jury was announced in court, Arias said she just “went blank.”

“I didn’t expect the premeditation," she said. "I could see maybe the felony murder because of how the law is written, but the whole time I was fairly confident that I wouldn’t get premeditation."

Arais said she partially understood why the jury did not believe her version of events, because she lied in the beginning to police. According to officials, testimonies and Arias' confession, she lied twice at first about how Alexander was killed and later admitted that she killed him in an act of self-defense.

When asked by the news station if she could do it all over again what would she have done differently, Arias said would have “turned around" and drove to the Mesa police department.

“I don’t know (what would happen) but it would have been the right thing,” she added.

Arias, 32, was found guilty for murder in the first degree of Alexander, a 30-year-old Mormon motivational speaker. According to police and evidence presented during the trial, Arias 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.

The next phase of the trial - the aggregation phase - will begin next week. Prosecutor Juan Martinez will present more evidence to the jury to prove Alexander's crime was committed in a cruel manner.

Cruel manner" is when a victim suffered physical and or mental pain, according to Arizona law. Martinez will also try to prove that Arias knew Alexander would suffer.

If the jury decides that Arias is guilty for committing the crime in a "cruel manner," she will likely face the death penalty and become the fourth woman in Arizona's history to die by lethal injection. Arias and her defense team, family members and or friends will plead for leniency and ask that she does not die. If this happens, the jury will have to make a decision for the third time - if she should be sentenced to life in prison or death.

Watch Arias say she'd rather get "death than life, sooner than later."

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