i know no verdict will ever bring your friend, travis alexander back, but i would like your reaction when you heard the news of the verdict yesterday. well, my reaction was not so much vindication or revenge for jodi. it was more for validation, you know, for travis. i didn t know jodi that well, we had her over, travis brought her. i knew travis really well and i knew that he had left jodi a year before she killed him. and i knew he was trying to get his life back. in a group meeting, i had spoken to his more mown bishop, who was in constant contact with travis. he knew he was headed back in the right direction, believed in the grace of christ as a christian mormon, and felt like if he repented, he could he could get his life back, and he was trying to get away from
herself. and i thought it was a little strange for jodi for trav and jodi. i didn t think that they matched well. but i trusted travis and knew he was such a builder of people that jodi could become somebody, you know, through travis. he built so many people, so i just relied on travis. all right. dr. karl hiat, friend, mentor, arizona father of travis alexander, thank you for being with us. can i say one other thing? i don t know if it s too late. but i love travis siblings, love the siblings and i have been in some communication with some of them throughout the trial, and i ve told them, you know, jodi took travis life and they need to get this behind them, and trust that the judgment of the eternal
jodi, and, sure, he was a sinner and everybody saw that in the courtroom, but he also was a penetant, humble guy, trying to repent and improve and have the full grace of christ in his life. that just didn t come out. this is more of a validation for travis and who he was what wasn t really shown in the courtroom. you call it a validation, the big question is what happens next. the sentencing phase begins today, jodi arias, after the guilty verdict was delivered, gave a television interview where she said the sentence she might like to see. listen to what she said. i said years ago, i would rather get death than life and that is still true today. i believe death is ultimate freedom, i would rather have freedom as soon as i could get
big i m not a big person for the death penalty or anything like that or revenge for jodi, but i think that punishments are not really punishments. they are preventative things for the rest of society to stay in line. doctor, this trial became something of a spectacle since january and yesterday when the verdict was read, there were hundred dollars of people by the courthouse and a big cheer went up. as a friend, what was it like to see the spectacle surrounding this case? well, as a matter of fact, i was asked to interview several times, because travis called me his arizona dad, and i knew him pretty intimately and loved him. he went on vacations with us and everything, and i felt myself, i felt more of a sigh of relief. like, okay, travis. i think the world can now know who you are and not just all about jodi, and i stayed away
it. jodi arias essentially asking for the death penalty. as a friend of travis alexander, what is the sentence you would like to see? you know, i don t really have major feelings toward jodi, again, revenge or anything like that. to kill somebody. the only thing i known this country, we have a system of law and order and so i feel like penalties such as the death penalty, not so much punishment for jodi, but to keep order, so the next person doesn t do the same thing, we can t just let people off, then we will not have order. we ll have chaos. so part of that keeping order and we have a a rule of law, is enforcing maximum sentences, so if the death penalty is is going to help in that regard, i think that s that should occur, again, i m not great and