Watch closing arguments in jodi arias trial

Nurmi portrayed Alexander as a man divided between his Mormon faith and sexual desires that led him to have relationships with several women. The defense attorney said Alexander used Arias to quench his sexual urges, called her demeaning names and told her she was soulless. Martinez said Arias falsely attacked Alexander's character to draw attention away from her own actions.

Arias often looked at the jury as her attorney pleaded for the more lenient sentence. When the prosecutor made his arguments, she occasionally cast her eyes on the jury but mostly looked elsewhere. Her sentencing retrial has dragged on amid a series of expert witnesses and the surprising October decision by Judge Sherry Stephens to remove reporters and spectators from the courtroom so Arias could testify in private. The sentencing retrial revealed few new details about the crime and was more subdued than Arias' first trial, which turned into a media circus.

At the retrial, the judge barred the broadcast of footage from the proceedings until after a verdict is reached. She did, however, agree to allow live broadcast coverage of the sentencing verdict.

Arias passed up a chance Monday to address the jury, saying she wanted to make such comments but insisting the courtroom be cleared. She said she wouldn't make any remarks if she could be seen and heard from a remote viewing room.

Main Menu U. Alexander was a Mormon, and portrayed himself to friends and family as a virgin and devout follower of the faith who was saving himself for marriage. Arias says Alexander had grown physically abusive in the months before she killed him, once even choking her into unconsciousness, but she kept seeing him because she was in love. However, there has been no evidence or testimony during the trial to corroborate her stories that Alexander was violent or owned a gun -- the very gun she used to shoot him.

The defense has portrayed Alexander as a cheating womanizer who used Arias for sex and abused her physically and emotionally. Prosecutors have depicted Arias as an obsessed ex-girlfriend who couldn't come to grips with the ending relationship and Alexander's desire to see other women.

Martinez went on to describe the couple's steamy relationship and how Arias was clearly more into Alexander than he was into her, and said she had described him as one of the greatest blessings in her life.

Martinez then described in detail the stabbing, Alexander's fight for his life, the slitting of his throat and the gunshot to his head. Alexander suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, was shot in the forehead and had his throat slit. Which he was. What kind of alibi is that? Why have him take time-stamped photos of her and then not think to take the camera with her?

Who except the one who is controlling the attack has the option to stop, stand at the sink and mess with the faucet? Why did Travis have only five relatively minor wounds on his hands, only one on his dominant hand, and none on his lower arms if he was supposedly defending himself against a knife attack for more than a minute and perhaps up to two minutes? Why would anyone who supposedly premeditated a murder intentionally according to the State fire off a gun at in the afternoon in a residential neighborhood for no other reason than to supposedly make a statement to an already dead person?

Why would anyone leaving a crime scene at approximately six in the evening when a whole neighborhood might be arriving home from work think it is a great plan, after just killing someone, to be squatting down, reattaching a license plate when, as the State contends, the whole purpose of removing them was to make the car unidentifiable, untraceable and certainly unassociated with her?

Why does she make cell phone calls in Arizona heading north from Kingman toward Hoover Dam, thus negating the supposed reason for borrowing the gas cans or turning off her cell phone? Why does she fill the gas cans in Salt Lake City if their purpose was to hide her trip into Arizona? Was she also supposedly hiding her trip from her so-called alibi home to Yreka?