Jodi Arias' Trials Cost Arizona Taxpayers Nearly $3 Million

An Arizona jury was once again unable to reach a unanimous decision on whether Jodi Arias should be executed for the gruesome 2008 murder of her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander, a judge announced Thursday.

PHOENIX, Ariz. (NBC News) – For the second time, Jodi Arias has escaped the death penalty. In 2013, Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the brutal death of her lover, Travis Alexander. In 2008, Alexander was 

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has declared a mistrial in the Jodi Arias sentencing retrial after jurors deadlocked on whether the convicted murderer should be executed or sent to prison for life for killing her lover in 2008.

PHOENIX (Reuters) – An Arizona jury failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias after a lone juror refused to back the death penalty, a development that spared the former waitress from execution for murdering her

Jodi Arias stands for the jury during her sentencing retrial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix last month. Arias was spared the death penalty Thursday after jurors deadlocked on her punishment for killing her lover in 2008. The Associated Press.