Jodi Arias Trial Latest Update: Hung Jury leads to Mistrial

The Judge presiding over the Jodi Arias trial, Sherry Stephens, has declared a mistrial after the jury failed to agree on the terms of her sentencing Thursday.

"I do not wish or intend to force a verdict. No juror should surrender his or her honest conviction," Stephens said.

Arias will either be sentenced to life in prison or life with a possibility of parole after 25 years. Stephens has set April 13 as the sentencing date. She will not get the death sentence.

"My personal opinion is that she earned the death penalty," Chris Hughes, a friend of Alexander, said according to KPHO. "I would be OK with life in prison, if she never gets out again, but she deserves the life of a death row inmate."

The jurors had deliberated over five-days for 26.5 hours. This is the second time that a jury has been unable to decide on her sentencing. When the mistrial was declared, the Alexander family reportedly got very emotional with some members crying openly.

USA TODAY reported that the family had said, "The real justice will be in the afterlife, when Jodi burns in hell."

"When you're trying to convince your neighbor juror next to you, as to what happened in a case of guilt or innocence, that's like a whodunit, maybe," legal expert Jeff Gold explained. "But when you're trying to convince the person next to you that I want to kill this person and you should kill them to - that's much harder."

Arias was convicted in 2013 for the murder of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Alexander was found dead in his home in 2008. He had sustained more than 20 stab wounds, a slit across his throat that almost decapitated him and a gunshot wound in the forehead.

Arias initially stated that she had nothing to do with his death. She later changed her story and claimed that she killed him out of self-defense. Arias stated that Alexander had broken her down mentally after he physically abused her and used her body for sex against her will.

Prosecutors of the case argued that Arias killed Alexander on purpose due to jealously. Alexander had broken up with her and was headed on a trip out of the country with another woman.

The Alexander family did not talk to reporters at the end of the retrial.