Jodi Arias And Eva Dugan Case Summary

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Jodi Arias and Eva Dugan are both women who were convicted of murder and were sentenced to death in the state of Arizona. Jodi Arias was convicted of murdering her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander on May 8, 2013. Eva Dugan was convicted of murdering her employer chicken rancher Andrew J. Mathis in January of 1930.

Travis Alexander was found murdered in his shower by friends on June 8, 2008. He had been stabbed multiple times and shot in the head. The police determined that Travis Alexander had been killed on June 4, 2008. The police were able to retrieve pictures from a camera found in Alexander's washing machine. The camera showed pictures of Travis Alexander and Jodi Arias in suggestive poses starting at about 1:40 on June 4, 2008. Photos …show more content…

The police discovered that Arias had rented a car 100 miles from her home in California on June 2, 2008. The car was returned without car mats, had stains on the interior and had been driven around 2,800 miles when she returned it. Her DNA was also found in a bloody hand print on the wall in Alexander's house, and a gun had also been reported missing from her grandparents after Jodi Arias had visited about a week before the muder.

The jury took only 15 hours to find Jodi Arias guilty of first-degree premeditated murder. Arias' first death penalty trial ended with a mistrial on May 23, 2013. Eight jurors had voted for the death penalty, and four for a life sentence. The prosecution decided to re-try the penalty phase in order to get a death sentence Arias. The trial is currently

Eva Dugan was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of Andrew J Mathis. She was the first and only woman to be executed in the state of Arizona. Eva Dugan went to the gallows on February 21, 1930. It was the first time that women were allowed to witness a hanging in Arizona. There were five other women in the death chamber. When the trap door beneath her was release the rope around her neck decapitated her and her head rolled and stopped at the feet of the spectators many of whom fainted. Eva Dugan was the last person to executed by hanging in

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