A California woman has been found guilty of premeditated murder in the shooting and stabbing death of her boyfriend in his Arizona home in 2008.


A jury found Jodi Arias, 32, planned the killing of Travis Alexander, 30, a motivational speaker and salesman.

Initially blaming the killing on intruders, Arias later said she had killed him in self-defence.

Arias wept quietly as the verdict was read. She faces either life in prison or the death penalty.

The jury deliberated for 15 hours over three days after hearing closing arguments on Friday.

Testifying for 18 days in her own defence, Arias said she was too scared and ashamed to tell the truth at the time of the killing but insisted she was not lying to jurors. She has spent four years in prison.

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The case, with its attractive victim and defendant and salacious testimony of sex and violence, has gained an outsized media interest in the US since the trial began in January.

Alexander's body was found in the shower of his suburban Phoenix, Arizona home in June 2008. He had been shot in the forehead and stabbed multiple times, his throat slashed.

Arias initially denied any involvement, telling authorities masked intruders had killed Alexander.

But she later said Alexander attacked her following a series of sexual encounters that day, slamming her onto a tile floor. She.