Jodi Arias' Murder Alibi Ryan Burns Says, 'If Anyone Deserves The Death Penalty, It's Her'
May 9 2013, Published 6:38 p.m. ET
Once hoping to spark a romance with the pretty brunette who he met at a business conference, Ryan Burns was an innocent pawn in Jodi Arias' sinister plot to butcher Travis Alexander when she used him as an alibi, and now her former love interest thinks that she deserves the death penalty for the gruesome crime.
"The verdict was shocking but expected, and I feel like justice was served," Burns, the man who the now convicted-murderer drove to Utah to visit immediately after slaying the fellow Mormon in his Arizona home, told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.
Having been found guilty of first-degree murder on Wednesday, Jodi now faces the penalty phase where the same jury will return to the Maricopa County Court to decide if she lives or dies, and Burns said he approves if they sentence her to execution by lethal injection after he saw shocking images of the brutal way she slashed up Alexander.
"You hear 29 stab wounds, you hear slicing the throat, you hear the shot in the head, and it sounds horrible…but at some point a friend of mine was at my house and had crime scene photos on his computer and he just turned the screen and I saw everything," Burns revealed with his voice still shaking from the horror. "I think from that point forward, I thought 'Wow...'
"I had always said she didn't deserve the death penalty — I said she deserved murder one and whatever they decide the penalty to be — but when I saw that I had to admit that it took away a lot of the remorse I had for someone I thought was a friend until I found out who she really was," he explained.
"It is crazy to contemplate your thoughts on the death penalty, but if anyone does deserve it then she certainly does," he said, adding that it will be justice "if she gets death."
If the jury opts against the harsh punishment, they have the choice of life in prison without parole, or a minimum of 25 years with the option of parole, and Burns thinks spending the rest of her days behind bars "either way is right."
He went on to explain to Breaking Celebrity News how he unwittingly got lured into the femme fatale kille